Writing Quotes

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.