On Writing Quotes

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.

بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.