Writing Quotes

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

I've always liked new writing.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.