Writing Quotes

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.