Writing Quotes
-
Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.
-
A sense of place is very important in writing.
-
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
-
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
-
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
-
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.
-
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
-
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
-
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.
-
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
-
I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
-
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
-
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
-
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
-
One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.
-
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
-
The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
-
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
-
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
-
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
-
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
-
I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
-
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
-
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
