What Is Writing Quotes

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not just because it's horror, but because the cast is so good and the writing is so great.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

I just like doing it, I like writing.

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

You can't live and write at the same time.

I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.