What Is Writing Quotes

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

By writing, you learn to write.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.