Writing Quotes

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

My favorite pastime is to write.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.