Writing Quotes

• All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Mad

• You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Different
  • Words
  • Color

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Done
  • Song
  • Kind

• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Prose
  • Delicious

• 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

• The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What stories should they be telling? What does writing mean to them? I didn't know the answers to those questions for a long, long time.

  

  Blake Crouch
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Struggle

• We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'

  

  Keri Smith
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Habit

• I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Star

• My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Career
  • Song
  • Cousin

• You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Work
  • Brain

• For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Up
  • Writing

• I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Singing

• When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Convincing

• Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Intuition

• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Living

• If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Writing
  • American

• I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Writing

• I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • People
  • Book
  • House

• Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Wonder

• Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Writing
  • Style

• Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Writing

• I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the whole craft. That was when I wrote everything on the album. I put out 'Don't Ya,' and it took off.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Fitness

• The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Memories

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