Writing Quotes

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Writing. Love is writing.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Everything starts with writing.

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

I will write myself into well-being.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.