What Is Writing Quotes

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

Postponement: The father of failure.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.