What Is Writing Quotes

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

And my girl actin like a brat So when she call, I don't answer - I just write her back

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

I can write anywhere.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.