Writing Quotes - Page 42

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention. Instead I deal with it in my writings as a Mystery Tradition with long roots to the past. It has always been my position that we don't need an ancient tradition in order to be validated. We just happen to have one.

Let's give the historians something to write about

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.