Quotes About Writing

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.