Writing Quotes

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.