About Writing Quotes

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.

I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.

I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in my heart becomes part of the lyrical content.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

I don't believe in writing people off.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

What writing does is to reveal.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.