What Is Writing Quotes

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Writing is a communication.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still