Writing Quotes

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.