What Is Writing Quotes

I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

Of writing many books there is no end.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.