Writing Quotes

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Don't talk about it; write.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.