What Is Writing Quotes

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

I write about true-life type things.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

I don't consider genre while writing.

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

Little else matters than to write good code.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!