Writing Quotes

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

It is immoral not to tell.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Writers write about what worries them.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.