Writing Quotes
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
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Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
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I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.
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To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
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When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
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I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
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I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
