Writing Quotes

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I won't read novels while writing novels.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

I write in a small office at home.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

I put my soul into every book I write.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.