Quotes About Writing

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

My name is A.J. and I hate school. Well, I hate that reading and writing and arithmetic part of school, anyway. That stuff is for the birds!

Annoying Andrea had on her mean face. She was mad because I came up with a great idea and she didn't. Mr. Cooper wrote down my idea and sent it to the

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For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter.

Progress cannot be only intuited. It must be written, and read.

now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Interestingly, in this case the artist comes a distinct third, showing how less famous artists can be sidelined as other preoccupations in the writing of art history come to the fore.

Hathwell is writing with quiet intensity about significant things.

I might be a thriller writer, but I know all about romance." "That's pretty obvious from your love life," the kid sassed back. "Oh, wait. You don't have one.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.

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Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is a high-wire act. It's best not to look at the other circus performers but to attend to the wire.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay.

Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.