Writing Quotes

• I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Strange
  • Phenomenon
  • Pens

• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Book
  • Editor

• I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Night

• To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Writing
  • Silly

• If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Health

• I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Writing
  • Advice
  • Lyric

• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  

  Fredric Jameson
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • People
  • May
  • Space

• I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

  

  James Salter
  • Writing

• The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Writing

• Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Simple

• Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Morning
  • Sports
  • Hero

• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  

  David Guterson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Money

• I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Actors
  • Playwright
  • Hamptons

• To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Real
  • Game
  • Team

• The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Important
  • Understanding

• The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

  

  Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Proffession

• To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Drama

• No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Baby

• Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

  

  Dave Lombardo Amen
  • Writing

• My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

  

  David Twohy
  • Time
  • Why
  • Job

• When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Water
  • Color
  • Rain

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