About Writing Quotes

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

I write for anybody struggling to manage their money.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.