What Is Writing Quotes

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

Ill never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

A day without writing was a little death.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.