About Writing Quotes

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

Writing well is the best revenge.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

I write music with an exclamation point!

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.