About Writing Quotes

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I have to live my books before I write them.

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I always write well in New York.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.