What Is Writing Quotes

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

How can you contrive to write so even?

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.