What Is Writing Quotes

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

Simple is the only way I can write.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.