About Writing Quotes

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

Use every letter you write Every conversation you have Every meeting you attend To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams Affirm to others the vision of the world you want

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.