What Is Writing Quotes

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.