What Is Writing Quotes

Someone ought to write a novel about me.

You can never be too paranoid.

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.