Quotation Explorer - 'Writing'

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever. - Debasish Mridha

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music? - D.A. Botta

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. - Ignazio Silone

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it. - Larry Levis

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. - Warren Ellis

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others. - M. Kirin

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop. - Robert Black

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. - Alasdair Gray

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught. - Parnell Hall

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose. - P.G. Wodehouse

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. - Gail Sher

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages. - Amitav Chowdhury

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent. - Sara Sheridan

There is more to writing than playing with words. - Marty Rubin

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful. - Edmund White

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you. - Dominic Riccitello

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. - Anthony Powell

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. - Rudy Francisco

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. - Dan Kennedy

Writing is the supreme solace. - W. Somerset Maugham

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer. - Anastasia Bolinder

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect. - Sonia Rumzi

Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience. - Mark Bell

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world. - Debasish Mridha

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. - Walter Mosley

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. - William Faulkner

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. - James Richardson

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. - Henry Miller

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ... - Susi Moore

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. - L. M. Montgomery

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. - Marty Rubin

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing. - Stephen Fry

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. - Stephen King

The speaking of writing is more effective than speaking. - Sanaullah sahil

It's the writing that teaches you. - Isaac Asimov

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it. - Julie Wright

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. - Jules Renard

Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want to be. Where I want to be, it's just a matter of having the imagination to do so! - Zachary Frerichs

Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done. - Suze Orman

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. - Jules Renard

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert A. Heinlein

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money. - J.P. Donleavy

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time. - James Van Pelt

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. - Virginia Woolf

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt - Tebogo Phakedi

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. - Andre Dubus III

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion. - Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. - Chrys Fey

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. - Joss Whedon

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. - Jeanette Winterson

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. - Ambrose Bierce

Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. - V.S. Pritchett

If writing is your passion, write and don’t let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don’t need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it. - Bindu Adai

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears. - Michel Foucault

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed. - Oksana Rus

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible. - Daphne Athas

In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them. - rassool jibraeel snyman

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better. - James Franco

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James A. Michener

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

I started writing a story twenty years ago..yet remain unfinished until this time..'.couldn't not think how I end this story because it covers entirely pain, grief, and sorrow... If one story like this, how should it end...? - J.B. AC

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. - Elaine Liner

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath! - Latif Mercado

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. - Stanislaw J. Lec

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me. - Rosita Forbes

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was. - Kristyn Van Cleave

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye. - Karl Schroeder

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret. - Silas House

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens. - Gwendoline Riley

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. - Fran Lebowitz

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. - Gabriela M. Sanchez

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard. - Paulo Coelho

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end. - Nona Mae King

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

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. - Joseph Conrad

Writing a novel is agony. - George Orwell

Writing gives me wings. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar. Moderation in moderation. Fun is scary with a happy ending. Just love. If love doesn’t transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate. - Emily Thornton Calvo

Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you’re sure to receive. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. - Don Roff

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. - Jack London

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. - Cyril Connolly

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.~ - Christa Desir

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. - Philip Levine

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. - H.L. Mencken

In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. - Raymond Chandler

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. - Sharon M. Draper

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. - Tom Winton

Write as if life has no meanings without writing. - Debasish Mridha

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write. - Fran Lebowitz

The world is corrupt, and the way for me to make it better is not by writing letters, but joining my efforts with those of others to produce a work of beauty. - H.S. Ede

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. - M.F.K. Fisher

It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision. - Tom McCarthy

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Writing isn't a choice. It's a calling. So answer the damn phone already! - T.N. Suarez

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer. - Kurt Vonnegut

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters. - Carla H. Krueger

I hate writing, I love having written. - Dorothy Parker

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again. - Debasish Mridha

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something. - Mari Serebrov

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience. - Arnošt Lustig

Writing keeps me sane. - Shelly Goodman-Wright

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me! - Alvi Syahrin

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me. - Daniel Willey

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs. - Ralph Keyes

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. - Thomas Jefferson

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. - Kurt Vonnegut

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? - Annie Dillard

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Writing means making things large. - Christa Wolf

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think it’s very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don’t know where it’ll go. - Margaret Atwood

Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka

Writing is perhaps the best way of de-stressing, but if done with an adulteration of the feelings and/or with an expectation of an appreciation then it only and eventually leads to frustration. - Anuj Somany

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. - David Rose

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine. - A.E. Samaan

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. - Sandra Brown

In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them. - Pat Conroy

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. - Russell Banks

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. - Roddy Doyle

I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn. - Desi Puspitasari

You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. - Ashley Brooke Robbins

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. - Confucius

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. - Lina K. Lapina

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief - William Zinsser

I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do. - Erin M. Truesdale

Writing and art are my lovers - Edna Stewart

Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also. - Ashley Chunell

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--''Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.'Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain? - Eoin Colfer

Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard - GBickle

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life. - Katja Michael

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. - Cormac McCarthy

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together. The Diary - Jeremy Limn

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world. - K.M. Randall

One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscious needs. It would be important if it only touched the conscious mind, as expository writing does. But fiction is important, too, because it teaches the unconscious. - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

The spark of wondering is the start of writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A person with his good writing can make some earning, but if he seems to be enjoying luxury living then probably it's time for all to see the intention of the people behind his promotion. - Anuj Somany

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet. - Cédric Klapisch (screenplay writer); spoken by Xavier Rousseau in Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.R. Martin

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. - Eliza Green

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person.... - Ramana Pemmaraju

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. - Douglas C. Engelbart

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. - Robert Galbraith

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say? - VanillaCreamPie8888

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. - David Foster Wallace

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good. - Sara Sheridan

I AM NOT A WRITER.My characters simply commandeer my fingertips, writing their own destinies. - T.N. Suarez

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. - Dorothy Day

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. - Tara Dobbs

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind. - Debasish Mridha

If you're not writing, you're wronging. - Kevin James Breaux

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. - David Hare

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. - Sara Sheridan

[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. - David McCullough

It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Writing is the emotional morphine. - Mariam Maarouf

Writing is a calling, not a choice. - Isabel Allende

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! - Matt Groening

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. - Bill Watterson

Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday. - Tyrone Jaeger

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. - Gustave Flaubert

Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen. - Katrina Monroe

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong. - Kevis Hendrickson

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. - Paula Danziger

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. - John Mason Brown

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. - David Chuka

Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking. - Ada Maria Soto

A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. - Semezdin Mehmedinović

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. - Garrison Keillor

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard. - Marty Rubin

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing - L.L. Barkat

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. - Bill Moyers

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range - Mpho Leteng

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. - Toni Morrison

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. - Richard Harding Davis

It takes ,all at bottom from heart writing takes from root ,to spread likepieces of cloud ,then bind in such a thik Cloud ,pouring on earth to give entire life to start it again . - litymunshi

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me. - Sanober Khan

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. - Graham Greene

Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. - John Gregory Dunne

Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong. - Dominic Riccitello

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. - A.E. van Vogt

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions - Miguel Syjuco

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. - Annie Proulx

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing. - Dave Barry

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. - Richard P. Denney

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter’s cursive writing. - T.K. Naliaka

With your life, you are writing the history of the universe. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Writing is a solitary occupation. - Bernard Cornwell

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. - Natalya Vorobyova

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. - Terry A. O'Neal

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. - T.S. Eliot

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. - Evinda Lepins

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. - Virginia Woolf

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary. - Wendy Swore

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. - Clive Barker

Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin - Suzy Davies

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers. - Rick Riordan

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories - Michael Biondi

I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes… - Phil Dusenberry

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done. - Lawrence C. Connolly

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts. - Santosh Kalwar

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you. - Bryant Loney

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time. - Debasish Mridha

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. - Sandra Chami Kassis

Make your writing memorable. - A.D. Posey

I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night? - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. - Anaïs Nin

Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. - Dr Margaret Aranda

Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing. - Debasish Mridha

All writing is rewriting. - John Green

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. - Sara Sheridan

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge . - Adel Abouhana

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. - Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing! - Anthony Liccione

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. - Thomas a Kempis

I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul. - Cindy Aime

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). - J.M. Varner

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. - Gilles Deleuze

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. - Lenora Champagne

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. - Hélène Cixous

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write! - Margarita Gakis

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about. - P.S. Bartlett

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and make it reality by working hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the real world, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for personal success. - Mark F. LaMoure

If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough. - Deray Ogden

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writing is pure sweet freedom. - J. Hale Turner

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. - John Adams

Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history. - Evan Ricafort

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. - Neil Gaiman

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. - Gustave Flaubert

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. - Terry Pratchett

If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it. - Jeremiah Laabs

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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. - Isabel Colegate

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... - William Petersen

I wish to keep writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. - James Joyce

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. - Oscar Wilde

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul - Kunal Jajal

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. - Ace Antonio Hall

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. - Madeleine L'Engle

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper. - Alan Bennett

The best writing is embarrassing; that’s all there is to it. - A.D. Posey

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. - Jeff Jarvis

Writing is the geometry of the soul. - Plato

Wondering leads to writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. - Tim O'Brien

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. - Gordon Atkinson

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. - Heather Armstrong

I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. - Sara Sheridan

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. - A.D. Posey

Consider your body and mind as a machine that runs a program; then be aware of who is writing the program you are running. - Russell Eric Dobda

If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. - Louis L’Amour

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time. - Jamie L. Harding

There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache. - Nikki Rowe

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. - John Steinbeck

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. - Kamand Kojouri

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do. - W. Somerset Maugham

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. - Pliny the Elder

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

Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines. - Benjamin R. Smith

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre. - Sara Sheridan

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. - J.K. Rowling

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. - Jeanette Michelle

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. - John Steinbeck

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown

What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial. - Natalie Goldberg

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. - E.L. Doctorow

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. - Lemony Snicket

Writing is the best anti-depressant. - Fierce Dolan

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and create reality by working to make it happen. Transform your dreams to the material world by writing your goals, taking action and by being determined to make them happen. - Mark F. LaMoure

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. - Margaret Atwood

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it. - C.S. Lewis

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. - Octavia E. Butler

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head. - Susan Orlean

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. - Nadine Gordimer

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive. - Mary Sage Nguyen

If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification. - Mark John Isola

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. - Christos Tsiolkas

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. - Debasish Mridha

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common. - Richelle E. Goodrich

In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) - David N. Elkins

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. - Shannon L. Alder

The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. - E.B. White

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. - Brandi L. Bates

My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com) - Christopher Lehman

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. - Jack Jordan

will you be the one reading the book or writing the book - Abe

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling. - Brenda B. Taylor

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing - Munia Khan

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. - Jaime Reed

Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. - Josh Lieb

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I am obsessed with reading and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money. - Harley King

I don’t know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better. - Debasish Mridha

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... - Jack Kerouac

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. - Alice Walker

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. - Sterling W. Sill

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. - Jane Yolen

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. - Dan Barden

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. - Tiffany Madison

it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words , the only thing that matter , is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader . - Mahdi Khmili

I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em. - Brent Weeks

The longer the wondering, the longer the writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. - Fannie Hurst

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing. - Debasish Mridha

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment. - Elmore Leonard

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. - Jimi Hendrix

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. - Alexandra Cruz

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living. - Sara Sheridan

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. - Piroska Rodriguez

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. - Tennessee Williams

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid! - John Grisham

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. - William Strunk Jr.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. - Andre Gide

Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) - Jen Lynn Anderson

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. - Katherine Paterson

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. - James Joyce

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring. - Don Roff

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain

I am content when writing short stories. - Sarah Mazucci

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life. - Milissa R. Bailey

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. - Edwin Schlossberg

If the people could be awakened to their senses by mere preaching or writing, then probably no person would be smoking upon seeing the statutory warning on cigarette packets. - Anuj Somany

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. - Neil Gaiman

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. - Pliny The Elder

I am writing history, and I can't be there. - Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art. - Beem Weeks

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement. - Terry Pratchett

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that. - Ashly Lorenzana

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. - Ray Bradbury

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Writing is a sacred passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing. - Donald Harington

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. - Onyi Anyado

When I Find Myself in A Depressed State, I Try and Write to Feel Better. However, If Writing Doesn't Work, Then You Can Almost Always Catch Me Watching Cartoons on Television, Like Scooby-Dooby-Do or The Munster’s. Unfortunately, I Am Watching These Programs Nearly Every Day. - Chris Mentillo

When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins. - Sonia Rumzi

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them. - E. Hoffmann Price

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. - Giando Sigurani

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing. - Debasish Mridha

Every writer I know has trouble writing. - Joseph Heller

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. - Wole Soyinks

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control. - Elizabeth Sims

People are writing post-apocalyptic fiction like there's no tomorrow! - Cassandra Page

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. - John Green

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it. - Dean Wesley Smith

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. - Toni Morrison

There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic. - Anastasia Bolinder

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. - Francis Bacon

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. - Mark Haddon

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. - C.F. Heller

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles. - Donna Pyle

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability. - Charles Baxter

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. - Elvis Costello

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself. - E.B. White

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. - Robin S. Sharma

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is life – it’s where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in. - Phen Weston

Success in writing occurs when your dreams are bigger than your excuses. - T.N. Suarez

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I'm a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Never put off writing until you are better at it. - Gary Henderson

I could not think without writing. - Jean Piaget

A migraine is the cockblock of writing. - Don Roff

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real. - Sara Sheridan

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. - John Milton

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you! - Mary Kate

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. - William Zinsser

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... - Susi Moore

Writing exacerbates a wound. - Marty Rubin

I learn my world through writing. - Charlotte Eriksson

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Thelonious Monk

Stop writing caption. Go action! - Lenang Manggala

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. - Janet Frame

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track. - Gore Vidal

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. - David Sedaris

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) - David McCullough

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone. - Shannon Celebi

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book. - Chris Mentillo

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. - Linda Olsson

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts. - Khaled Talib

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez

Writing is like breathing for my soul. - A.D. Posey

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too. - William Zinsser

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. - William Zinsser

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down. - Patricia C. Wrede

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - J.P. Donleavy

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody. - Richard Wilbur

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. - Aysha Taryam

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. - O'Brien Browne

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. - Carla H. Krueger

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. - Samantha Steele

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas. - Oliver Markus

Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication. - Marty Rubin

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest. - Christopher Seufert

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. - Isadora Duncan

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. - Shannon L. Alder

You get a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is also earned, too. Raise yourself to excellence by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure

I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens. - Millicent Ashby

Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses. - Marty Rubin

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. - S.A. Bodeen

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. - Lauren Hammond

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. - Donal Logue

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! - Joanne McClean

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. - Dennis R. Miller

yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams - John Geddes

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. - Alan Dean Foster

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. - George Eliot

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. - A.D. Posey

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. - Don Roff

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. - Cathy Guisewite

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. - Don Roff

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it! - Ben Mikaelsen

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you. - Sara Sheridan

Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories. - Kim Pape

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012] - John Green

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. - Jimmy Breslin

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself. - M. Kirin

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content. - April Mae Monterrosa

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me. (p.531) - Storm Constantine

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. - Nancy Etchemendy

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch. - Tyler Hojberg

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story - Brandt Legg

The best writing is rewriting. - E.B. White

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. - Kahlil Gibran

There are very few innocent sentences in writing. - David Foster Wallace

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. - Christopher Stocking

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem

Writing is my passion. It’s in my blood like a talent is. Like dancing, or singing, or drawing, I write. I can never stop writing. It helps me to express everything I’m afraid to talk about out loud when I need to say it the most. It’s my pacifier in a way... - Melissa C. Hamilton

Since when did the community become our moral compass—our viability and ethics as writers determined so much by our team spirit? ... What if all this communing actually hurts the primary means by which I set out to participate and communicate—my writing itself? - Meghan Tifft

Choice betrays character, I said.That’s not true. Loring moved his finger along thesheet as if writing his name in cursive. Eliza, you can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions. - Tiffanie DeBartolo

Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back. - Phil Wohl

So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. - Christian A. Dumais

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats. - Ray Bradbury

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. - Etty Hillesum

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers. - Jenna Alatari

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out. - Robin Wells

You build a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned. Be the best. Raise yourself to excellence, by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure

God is love, but get it in writing. - Gypsy Rose Lee

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind. - Jane DeLynn

Writing your own quotes is like you started writing your history. - Evan Ricafort

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. - Hermann Hesse

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry. - Amit Kalantri

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me - Lori Lesko

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. - Lady Gaga

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. - Neil Gaiman

Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God. - Bela Abel

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down. - Chris Campanioni

when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters. - lauren klarfeld

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? - J.D. Salinger

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it. - George R.R. Martin

Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock! - Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. - A.E. Croft

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. - Debasish Mridha

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing. - Dixie Waters

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start. - Jo Linsdell

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. - E.B. White

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. - Beatrix Potter

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be. - Theodora Goss

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. - Elie Wiesel

My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves - Christopher Poindexter

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. - John Gardner

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. - Toni Morrison

It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them. - Isabel Colegate

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. - Sholem Asch

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less. - Dominic Riccitello

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any. - Teri Louise Kelly

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. - Pico Iyer

Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E.B. White

When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry? - C.J. Heck

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery - Cristina Istrati

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. - Shannon Hale

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cormier

Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk Jr.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself... - A.S. Byatt

we are writing our own ‪#‎karma‬! I mean my test cases - ahkeno

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing. - Ernest Hemingway

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. - Johnny Rich

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. - Eudora Welty

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader. - Cheryl Alleway

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. - Iain M. Banks

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. - Markus Zusak

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. - Amit Kalantri

In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow. - Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' - Jef Mallett

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. - Charles Kuralt

Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. - Ann Marie Aguilar

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math. - Almney King

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - YKRaikou

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other. - Joe Ducie

It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination. - H. P. Lovecraft

Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue. - Patrick Hicks

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page. - J.H. Glaze

I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration. - Bill Loguidice

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. - Neil Gaiman

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya? - Lynda Barry

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. - Molière

I would not be myself without writing. - Mary Sage Nguyen

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there. - Jef Mallett

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. - Anne Lamott

Mistress Creation keeps calling my name... i long for her, and she, for me... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon - Jaeda DeWalt

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over. - Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is daydreaming with ink. - Liana Brooks

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: "House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day." - Neil Gaiman

You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody. - E.A. Bucchianeri

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women - Gustave Flaubert

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. - Gabriel Fielding

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. - Dennis R. Miller

Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don’t have to go at it alone. - Tethered by Letters

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story - Tushar Upreti

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. - Ryan Lilly

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen

Writing heals the quandaries of life. - Susan J. McIntire

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. - John Steinbeck

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. - Rick Anderson

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. - Gaston Bachelard

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. - Franz Kafka

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. - Ted Hughes

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing poetry is a state of free float - Margaret Atwood

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. - Natalie Goldberg

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day. - Ernest Hemingway

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. - William Styron

No matter how different you are, your idea is, your art, your writing, your product, your concept, show it to the world. Just do it. Show who you are to the world. This is what you are here to do. - Eileen Anglin

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. - Harlan Ellison

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. - Charles Caleb Colton

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it. - Samuel Johnson

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing yes in the sky. - Monique Duval

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing! - David Maxwell

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. - William Styron

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. - Anne Tyler

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words. - Joseph Hunt

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. - Blaise Pascal

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it. - William Carlos Williams

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. - Jonathan Franzen

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story. - Michael P. Naughton

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen! - Susan J. McIntire

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating - T.N. Suarez

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. - Michelle M. Pillow

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people. - Margaret Wise Brown

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. - P.G. Wodehouse

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time. - Carla H. Krueger

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. - Randy K. Milholland

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. - Stanley Kunitz

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. - Kia Carrington-Russell

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. - Paul Fussell

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. - Gregory McDonald

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing opens the door to imagination. - Joe Evener

10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want to.Write when you do.Write when you have something to say.Write when you don’t.Write every day.Keep writing. - Brian Clark

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. - Richard Flanagan

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun. - Wynne Stevens

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures - John Ruskin

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. - Horace

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003] - T.C. Boyle