Writing Quotes

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

You must write to the people's expertise.

What I write is not for little girls.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

My best writing has always been in journals.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

Everyone needs an editor.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.