You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

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