Writing Quotes

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

Observe, don't imitate.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.