What Is Writing Quotes

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.