Writing Quotes

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

I write what I write.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.