What Is Writing Quotes

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.