Writing Quotes

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.