Writing Quotes - Page 249

I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.