Writing Quotes

• If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Perfect
  • Force
  • Quiet

• I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Time
  • Writing

• I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Kind
  • Pieces
  • Verses

• The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Men
  • Important
  • Action

• Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

  

  Will Shetterly
  • Strange
  • Humorous
  • Aliens

• I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • People
  • Writing
  • Novel

• We are much better at writing code than haiku.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Writing

• I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Good
  • Imagine
  • Afraid

• When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Common

• There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Things
  • Orchestra
  • Duration

• I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Writing

• Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Writing

• The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about Jewish Supremacism are from Jewish sources. They argue more convincingly for my point of view than anything I could write. I encourage you to go to the sources that I quote and check them out for yourself. In this book I take you along with me on a fascinating journey of discovery in a forbidden subject. I urge you to courageously keep an open mind while you explore the topics ahead, for that is the only way any of us can find the truth.

  

  David Duke
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Book

• Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Long
  • Writing

• I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Rest

• I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

  

  John Sladek
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Starting
  • Hardest
  • Stopping

• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Last Thing

• I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

  

  John le Carre
  • Writing
  • Service
  • Butterfly

• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Writing

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