What Is Writing Quotes

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

Good writing is about telling the truth.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.