Quotes About Writing

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

Of course the play as I wrote it amounted to nothing; but in weaving the plot through successive scenes, and in writing out some of the dialogues, I enjoyed the full bliss of literary creation. Never to have tasted this delight is never to have known one of the greatest joys of life.

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

La descarada investigación de uno mismo, la vocación autobiográfica, es en literatura, con independencia de cuál sea la altura de los resultados, una dimisión frente a una parte considerable del proyecto de interpretación del mundo en que uno se siente existir, en todo caso un repliegue al ángulo más fácil

Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

Now that the day is repeating, I have no idea what to do with myself," Lyle says. "I can't finish the book I've been working on for the past five months. Every time I go to sleep, the words I write disappear. It's frustrating as hell. The only books I'll ever write are the ones that are already finished. Anything I do from now on won't last.

Tardamos bastante más de lo que calculan los maestros en entender la escritura como búsqueda personal de expresión. El primer aliciente para expresarse por escrito de una manera espontánea surge, precisamente, como rebeldía frente a su mandato. La ruptura con los maestros es condición necesaria para que germine la voluntad real de escribir.

Content written at the eighth-grade level can be read and understood by 80 percent of Americans.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.

The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.

I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.

Maggie's internal monologue used to say: Don't do it. Don't take a writing class. Don't share your writing with others. It's not worth the risk. Your dream could be destroyed. Protect it. Now it says: Go for it. Make it happen. Develop your skills. Pursue your dream.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.