What Is Writing Quotes

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

Im really good at writing almost hits.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.