What Is Writing Quotes

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

I write to please myself.

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and those who say, 'Big problem; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me.'

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

I always love writing about children.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.