Writing Quotes
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.
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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''
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It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
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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.
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Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.
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I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
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I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
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The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
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If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.
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You have to stop living in order to write.
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My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.
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The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
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I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
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If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
