Writing Quotes

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.

To write is to inform against others.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.