Writing Quotes

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you.

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.