About Writing Quotes

Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

I like to write a lot of satire.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

I dont want to write, Id rather draw.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

I could write stories just as rotten.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.