Writing Quotes

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.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

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.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.