Writing Quotes

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make? Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Write what you love and love what you write.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.