About Writing Quotes

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I believe in my writing.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

I just write mechanical things.

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.