What Is Writing Quotes

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.