Writing Quotes

• Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

  

  Allan Guthrie
  • Writing

• If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Interesting
  • Voice
  • Criticism

• Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

  

  Wilson Follett
  • Writing

• I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Series
  • Architect
  • USA

• Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Great
  • Age
  • Study

• When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • Music
  • Attention

• Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Sleep
  • Worry
  • Son

• TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Speak
  • Program
  • Members

• Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Writing
  • Sequence
  • Outlines

• There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Magic

• When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Writing
  • Perspective

• People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Advice
  • Cutting

• I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

  

  David Remnick
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

  

  Arthur M. Jolly
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Ability

• Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • People
  • Writing

• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Ideas
  • Learn
  • Write

• I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Shows

• Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Wanted

• Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Hard

• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Reading

• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Art
  • Book

• I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Good
  • Writing

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