What Is Writing Quotes

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Write to one person, not a million.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.