What Is Writing Quotes

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

The more you write, the better you will get.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

Everything I write is about me.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."