About Writing Quotes

I put my filter on, though, and I only see things people I follow [on Twitter] write now. So, I don't even know anymore [ trolls].

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.

Headline writing is an art form.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.

All experience helps when you write.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.