What Is Writing Quotes

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.