Writing Quotes
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
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I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
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I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
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Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
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People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.
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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
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So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.
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One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
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The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.
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The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.
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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
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I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.
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Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
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Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
