What Is Writing Quotes

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.