Writing Quotes

• Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.

  

  James Vanderbilt
  • Writing
  • Done

• I used to give her my wife to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was so mad - are you crazy? You're not going to send that, or, you're not going to write that about me. So I would go, OK. You have five hours. Go ahead, write the column yourself.

  

  Sayed Kashua
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.

  

  Nancy Springer
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Redemption

• It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Novel

• I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Enough
  • Meetings
  • Climate

• An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

  

  Dennis Covington
  • Recognition
  • Condition
  • Account

• You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind it and the idea of helping people, but I feel you help people more by exposing yourself.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Helping

• The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

  

  Eugene Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

  

  Josephus Daniels
  • God
  • Writing
  • Novels

• If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.

  

  James Fenton
  • Up
  • Song
  • Reading

• Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Projects
  • Studios
  • Gigs

• I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Anytime

• Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Past

• Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Racket

• My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet.

  

  Dawn Lundy Martin
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Interest

• If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Scripts
  • Notebook
  • Outlining

• When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Poetry
  • Idea
  • Kindles

• The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

  

  Molly Crabapple
  • Writing
  • Sadness
  • Nicholas

• Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Riding

• If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • World
  • Writing
  • Sad

• Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

  

  William Shatner
  • Giving
  • Hurt
  • Winning

• I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Writing
  • Actors
  • Comedians

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