What Is Writing Quotes

If I’m feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone’s thing.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

I write to give myself strength.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.