What Is Writing Quotes

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I always write a story in one sitting.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

I just write what I want to write.

I write what I would like to read.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.