What Is Writing Quotes

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

I've always loved writing.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.