Writing Quotes
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
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There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.
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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
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I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
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If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
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The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
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Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
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The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.
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I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.
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Writing and Painting are the same for me.
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I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
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I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
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Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
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Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
