Writing Quotes
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.
