Writing Quotes - Page 145

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Writing is the supreme solace.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.