What Is Writing Quotes

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I don't exist without writing.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.