What Is Writing Quotes

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Live it up so you can write it down.