Writing Quotes

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I used to love writing in my journal.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Writing is an adventure.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.