About Writing Quotes

I write all my sermons.

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

Writing is busy idleness.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.