About Writing Quotes

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

I just want to keep writing music.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.