What Is Writing Quotes

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.