Quotes About Writing

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Since my addiction to motion is what feeds my writing, the main purpose of travel for me is to get lost.

The third question, thankfully, was less emotional. It read: "What is wrong with this statement?" How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. "It isn't a statement at all," he wrote. "It's a question.

about parataxis and hypotaxis (they either had something

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors.

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Wriiiiiiting," he whined. "That sounds like homework. Nobody said the revolution would involve homework.

Darkstalker writing in his scroll by firelight, writing as if his life depended on it.

One feeds the other... The loneliness of writing makes the communality of directing more joyful, and interacting with lots of people in a high-pressure situation makes me long to be alone in my office again.

Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.

Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it. 'That's for the post. Is the Doctor ready?' 'Ready and waiting these fourteen minutes,' said Stephen in a loud, sour voice. 'What a wretched tedious slow hand you are with a pen, upon my soul. Scratch-scratch, gasp-gasp. You might have written the Iliad in half the time, and a commentary upon it, too.

Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

Writing about such things is a way of keeping the evil outside, away from me.

I'm not a fan of Kurt's…I'm no longer writing my thesis on him." "Why?" "He liked guns too much. It didn't sit right with me as a gun control advocate." So, she had become a true conformist, one of the dreaded campus normals!