What Is Writing Quotes

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Writing is my vacation from living.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.