Writing Quotes
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
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A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."
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I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
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STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
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I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.
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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
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Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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Writing is the most personal form of prayer.
