Writing Quotes - page 15

The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it. (Samuel Johnson)
My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing way at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out? View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed. View quote
Philip Roth
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. View quote
Walter Mosley
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. View quote
Walter Mosley
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers. (Gertrude Stein)
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. View quote
John Frusciante
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? View quote
Ian McEwan
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. View quote
Ian McEwan
[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want. View quote
Jason Mraz
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane. View quote
Stephen Fry
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. View quote
Guy Ritchie
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. View quote
Joe Satriani
Yes. When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. (Maya Angelou)
... coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes. View quote
David Mermin
I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. [sighs] It's a start... View quote
Steven Wright
Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information. View quote
Daniel Levitin
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. View quote
Steve Jobs