Writing Quotes
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not sell, and you find that many pharmacists will not sell birth control. The movement has gone not just against the access of reproductive rights to abortion; the movement has gone to birth control. They're going after birth control.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.
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You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.
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Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down.
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Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it embodies William Strunk’s famous dictum, Omit needless words, at the keystroke level.
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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
