What Is Writing Quotes

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

Don't write about that which you don't know.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.