Writing Quotes

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

I want to be like, "Look at Postal like Quentin Tarantino did it. Brainwash yourself and convince yourself that Tarantino did it. Forget my name and enjoy the 100 minutes and then write your review."

As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

I need to meet people to be able to write.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.