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When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.
Sia is like no one else I've ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn't really seem to analyse what she's writing. She doesn't really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.
On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.
I've politely declined a few reality-type things but generally have been asked to do things that I'd enjoy. I'll be doing less in the new year so I can get some writing done.
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.
Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.
The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who is used to being hands-on like me.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.
The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.
Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.
I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong.
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.
The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.
I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.
I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.
As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected.
When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.
Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.
If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.
Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
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