Writing Quotes - Page 22

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.

The only reason to write is from love.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.