What Is Writing Quotes

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

People who can write a book usually do.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

We write to discover what we think.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

It's harder to read code than to write it.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.