Writing Quotes
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Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
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Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.
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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.
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I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.
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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
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Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
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When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.
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I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
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The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.
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I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.
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The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.
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I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.
