Writing Quotes And Sayings

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Writing Quotes And Sayings


“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
– J. K. Rowling

“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”
– J. K. Rowling

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”
– Steve Martin

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
– Robert Frost

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.”
– Ray Bradbury

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
– Truman Capote

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”
– Ross Perot

“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.”
– Stephen King

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
– Moliere

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
Alexander Pope

“Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.”
– James Young

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
– Gene Fowler

“For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.”
– Haruki Murakami

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
– Booker T. Washington

“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
– Isabel Allende

“I am a drinker with writing problems.”
– Brendan Behan

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
– Dave Barry

“You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.”
– William Shatner

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
– W. H. Auden

“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.”
– Nora Roberts

“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

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”
– William S. Burroughs

“I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.”
– Steven Wright

“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”
– Layne Staley

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