What Is Writing Quotes

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

I don't write books inadvertently.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.