Quotes About Writing

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.