About Writing Quotes

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.