What Is Writing Quotes

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

Writing is making sense of life.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.