About Writing Quotes

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

All writing is dreaming

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

Writing is only a guided dream.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.

If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.