About Writing Quotes

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.