Quotes About Writing

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

For you and everything alive inside of you, I write, and write.

La ironía es la mejor arma que poseen el periodista y el escritor.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Write with love, write with joy, and write with pride.

I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.

What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn't scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.