Writing Quotes - page 92

He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side - you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched. (Stephen King)
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. View quote
Stephen King
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. View quote
Stephen King
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. View quote
Stephen King
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? View quote
Stephen King
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas. View quote
Stephen King
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair... Come to it any way but lightly. View quote
Stephen King
What is writing? Writing is telepathy. View quote
Stephen King
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. View quote
Stephen King
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. View quote
Stephen King
I am still going through an experimental stage. I'm not happy, and I keep scrubbing out and scrubbing out again. I hope this mania will pass... I'm like the children at school; the clean page has to be filled with good writing, and splash – a mess! I'm still making messes and I'm forty years old. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
I have gone through different phases in my music writing. There was a time when I used a little exercise - incorporating all of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale - to get me going. I used this technique for a while, but I don't any longer because I am going back to simpler melodies. Originally I moved away from the simple songs because I thought they were too simple. View quote
Paul Simon
When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, It's a wonder I can think at all, And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall. View quote
Paul Simon
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. View quote
Ray Bradbury
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. View quote
Ray Bradbury
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. View quote
Ray Bradbury
There is no reason to write pornography when your own sex life is good. Why waste time writing about it? View quote
Ray Bradbury
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. (Ray Bradbury)
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. View quote
Doris Lessing
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. View quote
Doris Lessing
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. View quote
Doris Lessing
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. View quote
Doris Lessing