What Is Writing Quotes

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.

A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

Touring has been a new part of my life in a lot of ways. We've just been touring massively since the record came out and before. Learning how to write while all that is going on is a new thing.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.