About Writing Quotes

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.

Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.

I kinda write in sequences that I live through.

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

I blundered into writing.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The language of the street is always strong.

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.