What Is Writing Quotes

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.