What Is Writing Quotes

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.