Writing Quotes

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

Choreography is writing on your feet.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.