Quotes About Writing

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Pamaž?le žengiau prie pabaigos, netur?damas nei kit? vil?i?, nei kitoki? troškim?,išskyrus tuos, kuriais teks užpildyti savo knygas, ?sitikin?s, kad paskutinis mano širdies pol?kis bus ?rašytas ? paskutinio mano rašt? tomo puslap? ir kad mir?iai atiteks tik lavonas.

Totul mi-a p?rut simplu: a scrie înseamn? s? sporeÈ™ti cu o perl? colierul Muzelor, s? laÈ™i posterit??ii amintirea unei vieÈ›i exemplare, s? aperi poporul contra lui însuÈ™i È™i contra duÈ™manilor lui, s? atragi oamenilor printr-o Slujb? solemn? binecuvântarea cerului. Nu-mi veni ideea c? se poate scrie pentru a fi citit.

Écrire, c'est faire appel au lecteur pour qu'il fasse passer à l'existence objective le dévoilement que j'ai entrepris par le moyen du langage.

In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.

Le génie n'est qu'un prêt: il faut le mériter par de grandes souffrances, par des épreuves modestement, fermement traversées; on finit par entendre des voix et l'on écrit sous la dictée.

I'm going to bed. I'm cured, and I'm going to give up writing down my impressions, like a little girl, in a nice new notebook.

Our best writers read the most.

selecting and collecting the right texts is just as important for writing instruction.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

In writing, authors use modes to make meaning and clarity.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King

It's about identifying the patterns and the attributes that construct them. It's about making form work for your writing task