Top Writing Quotes Collection - Page 238
Discover a curated collection of Writing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 238 provides more Writing quotes.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.Collection: Writing
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.Collection: Writing
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.Collection: Writing
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.Collection: Writing
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.Collection: Writing
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.Collection: Writing
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.Collection: Writing
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.Collection: Writing
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.Collection: Writing
You know what, I just write what I feel.Collection: Writing
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something.Collection: Writing
If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.Collection: Writing
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.Collection: Writing
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?Collection: Writing
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.Collection: Writing
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.Collection: Writing
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.Collection: Writing
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.Collection: Writing
When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.Collection: Writing
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.Collection: Writing
When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative way. But I primarily work by myself, that's my process. When I'm acting, I'm there to serve the director and the character. I'm here to give you what you need. Communicate that to me and I will do what I need to do to get that. So that's what it's about.Collection: Writing
I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.Collection: Writing
You write in order to change the world.Collection: Writing
I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.Collection: Writing
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...Collection: Writing
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.Collection: Writing
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.Collection: Writing
If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.Collection: Writing
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.Collection: Writing
Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.Collection: Writing
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."Collection: Writing
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.Collection: Writing
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.Collection: Writing
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.Collection: Writing
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.Collection: Writing
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.Collection: Writing
I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.Collection: Writing
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.Collection: Writing
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.Collection: Writing
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.Collection: Writing
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.Collection: Writing
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.Collection: Writing
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.Collection: Writing
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.Collection: Writing
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.Collection: Writing
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.Collection: Writing
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.Collection: Writing
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.Collection: Writing