Writing Quotes

• In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Art
  • Night

• I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

  

  Anita Nair
  • Strength
  • Characters
  • Credibility

• I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Writing

• The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Thoughts

• In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Film
  • Creative

• To write is to inform against others.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • Writing

• Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

  

  Mitchel Resnick
  • People
  • Today
  • Technology

• I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Running
  • Serious
  • Couple

• I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

  

  David Duke
  • Way
  • Judging
  • Reconciliation

• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Earth
  • Indirect
  • Comets

• In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Writing
  • Children

• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Cutting

• For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Fun
  • Future
  • Team

• When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in my stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Dream
  • Facts
  • Doors

• I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Writing
  • Fall

• Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Actor
  • Changing
  • Styles

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

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Society

• I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Play
  • Process
  • Turn

• I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • People
  • Writing

• My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

  

  William Soutar
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Behinds

• The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Writing

• And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Ideas
  • Class

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