Writing Quotes

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher, ' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North, ' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash, ' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM, ' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Writing about food is my default.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.