About Writing Quotes

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.

Suspect all your favorite sentences.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.