Quotes About Writing

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

Paper has more patience than people.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

Socrates should have written comics.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

History should be written as philosophy.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.