Writing Quotes

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump