Writing Quotes

I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

I see but one rule: to be clear.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.