What Is Writing Quotes

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.