About Writing Quotes

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I write the way I write.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.