Writing Quotes

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I always have to be writing.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

We write to make sense of it all.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

Read, read read. Read everything.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.