What Is Writing Quotes
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.
Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.
I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.
Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.