Writing Quotes - Page 999

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.