Quotes About Writing

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling lik

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