What Is Writing Quotes

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

I write to find out what I think.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.