Writing Quotes

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

You must write for the waste basket.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.