Writing Quotes

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

We're kinda always writing, so it's like we're always thinking about what's next, so that'd be a yes. We're always constantly wanting to get onto the next thing or the new thing.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.