Writing Quotes

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

A woman who writes feels too much.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.