Writing Quotes - Page 265

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't want to overthink anything too much - we just wanted to, writing-wise, chuck out as many ideas as possible.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.