What Is Writing Quotes

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.