Writing Quotes

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.