What Is Writing Quotes

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

You just write about things that happen.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.