What Is Writing Quotes

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I never listen to music when I write.

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

It is a sin to write this.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.