Quotes About Writing

I write because it hurts.because I need it to hurt.because it hurts in the mostbeautiful way possible.(because it hurts like you)

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

I write. See you there.

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!

After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

I write so I don't call you.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

MAKE YOUR DESIRES CLEAR, AND TO REDUCE THEM TO WRITING.

Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing--rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply because they like to read--tend to be frustrated when they can't rapidly scan the text and summarize it in one sentence that connects it to some existing discourse in which they have been involved.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently , for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about—and the reader is no fool.

Never hire an academic unless his function is to partake of the rituals of writing papers or taking exams.

is often a good career move for an author.

Practitioners don't write; they do. Birds fly and those who lecture them are the ones who write their story. So it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position

it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.

Patients who spend fifteen minutes every day writing an account of their daily troubles feel indeed better about what has befallen them. You

One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the writing of another but that the literary intellectual would not be able to tell the difference between lines jotted down by a scientist and those by a glib nonscientist.