What Is Writing Quotes

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I write in the studio.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.