Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
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.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.
I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.