Writing Quotes

The way to write well is to live intensely.

Virginia Woolf
- Writing
- Way
- Wells
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Nick Bantock

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

Mose Allison
- Writing
- Song
- Punchlines
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
- Writing
- Canvas
- Recording
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

Douglas Coupland
- Writing
- Reading
I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

David Bowie
- People
- Writing
- Lying
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

Charles Foster Johnson
- People
- Important
- Book
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

William Hazlitt
- Style
- Speak
- Simplicity