What Is Writing Quotes

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

I don't write about my life in my column.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]