Writing Quotes
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I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.
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What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
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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.
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.
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A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
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I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
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I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
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Writing can't be taught.
