What Is Writing Quotes

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

I'm quite good at not writing.

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.