Writing Quotes

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it

Genius is the art of taking pains

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

Never write more than two pages on any subject.

There is no story unless you've written it.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

God is love, but get it in writing.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

I write in order to belong.