Writing Quotes

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

I let people say and write what they want.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

Use the smallest word that does the job.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

Writing is a delicious agony.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.