About Writing Quotes

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Facebook is the novel we are all writing

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

Write. Publish. Repeat.

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

You develop a style from writing a lot.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians, feeling it, and going there. I feel like I have a lot of content to start writing about.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.