Writing Quotes

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

Write about what makes you different.

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

How can you write if you can't cry?

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

A word after a word after a word is power.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.