What Is Writing Quotes

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?

It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

[Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.