Writing Quotes

• The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Book

• If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Fake
  • Passionate

• If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mean
  • Stories
  • Failing

• Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Months

• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Art
  • Ideas

• Write about what you don't know about what you know.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Knows

• The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Worry
  • Trouble

• The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Real
  • Joy
  • Acting

• Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Mean

• Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reality

• Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Stories
  • Awake
  • Daydreaming

• I write for myself things that I've gone through.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Gone

• There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Helpful

• I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mean
  • Joy
  • Training

• There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Interesting

• The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Writing

• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Feels
  • Credit
  • Jokes

• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fit

• Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Father
  • Ideas

• There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Problem
  • Literature

• The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Real
  • Enough
  • Rejection

• The only reason to write is from love.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Reason

• The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Novel

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