Writing Quotes - Page 232

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.

I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

When in doubt, blow something up.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Writing. Love is writing.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.