Quotes About Writing

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.