Writing Quotes

When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.

Nico Muhly
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

Thomas Hood
- Fate
- Modern
- Critics

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

Philip Glass
- People
- Life
- Music
My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally, letting someone else draw the main Hellboy comic. He's so much mine. But I still have no intention of ever handing over the writing of the main Hellboy comic to someone else. That character is my baby.

Mike Mignola
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Virginia Woolf
- Thinking
- Writing
- Mood
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

William Zinsser
- Writing
- Reading
- Easy
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.

Jasper Fforde
- Writing
- True
- Essence
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

Thomas Mallon
- People
- Enough
- Difficult