Writing Quotes

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I began writing as an experimental writer.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps. You never know it's helping until you start writing and s**t.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

I write, I write, I always write.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

The way to write well is to live intensely.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.