What Is Writing Quotes

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through and exploring and wondering and figuring out your thoughts.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Love is easy, and I love writing.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

Writers will be judged by what they write.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

If you don't like my book, write your own.