What Is Writing Quotes

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.