Writing Quotes

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.