Writing Quotes

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice.

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

I just like to write and then perform.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.