What Is Writing Quotes

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

You can't write drunk.

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.