Quotes About Writing

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!

If you don't make time for writing, writing won't make time for you.

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.