About Writing Quotes

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account . . . given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually in heaven before he was given a natural body.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it a lot. Have fun with it. Begin now.

I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.