Writing Quotes - page 16

I just want to keep writing music. (Lady Gaga)
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. View quote
Cesare Pavese
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being. View quote
William Saroyan
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. View quote
William Saroyan
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. View quote
William Saroyan
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness. View quote
William Saroyan
Every writer I know has trouble writing. View quote
Joseph Heller
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. View quote
Ornette Coleman
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. (Neil Gaiman)
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy. View quote
Chris Colfer
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen. View quote
John Millington Synge
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. ... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The hardest thing about writing is writing. View quote
Nora Ephron
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. View quote
Alice Walker
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. (Lawrence Lessig)
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I don't write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better - when you can get it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold