What Is Writing Quotes
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
