Writing Quotes - page 21

Why is a raven like a writing desk? (Lewis Carroll)

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

Daniel Radcliffe

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

George Sand

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

William Faulkner

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat....

William Faulkner

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

William Faulkner

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Ray Bradbury

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Virginia Woolf

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

Virginia Woolf

Just as there are higher beings who spread spiritual messages throughout the atmosphere by means of books, films, music, and other mass media, there are beings of a demonic nature who try to slow down the progress on this planet through these media. Exposure to books and media of this type can have a negative effect on you. [...] To counteract this, some of the beings of a higher nature write books or oversee the writing of books that enhance one's spiritual development. (Bhakti Tirtha Swami)

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Wole Soyinka

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Wisława Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wisława Szymborska

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H. L. Mencken

I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

Billy the Kid

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. (J. B. Priestley)

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

Stephen Spender

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

Ed Sheeran

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