About Writing Quotes

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.