Writing Quotes

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Writing is thinking on paper.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Write what should not be forgotten.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.