Writing Quotes

• It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

  

  Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • History

• My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Inspired

• 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.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Common

• I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

  

  Aharon Appelfeld
  • Writing
  • Metaphor
  • Catastrophe

• I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Long
  • Writing

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Politics

• I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • People
  • Songs
  • Around

• When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Alone

• Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • Writing

• While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • Mind
  • Cold
  • Mountain

• One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.

  

  Valerie Worth
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Literature

• I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Lyrics
  • Legal

• I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Writing
  • Perspective

• Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Thinking
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • Writing
  • Mysterious

• I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Song

• I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Game
  • Football
  • Poetry

• Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Up
  • Writing

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Dying

• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  

  Kyle Dunnigan
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• Writing is the geometry of the soul.

  

  Plato
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Geometry

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