What Is Writing Quotes

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

I write a thousand words a day.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.

All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.