Quotes About Writing

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Sei que, ao escrevermos, estamos seguramente, a prestar homenagem à vida, que é um milagre repetido dia após dia.

Escrever é usar as palavras que se guardaram: se tu falares demais, já não escreves, porque não te resta nada para dizer.

writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.

it is never a waste to write for intrinsic reasons. First of all, writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.

it is never a waste to write for intrinsic reasons. First of all, writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression. It allows one to record events and experiences so that they can be easily recalled, and relived in the future. It is a way to analyze and understand experiences, a self-communication that brings order to them.

it's very clear to me that my ability to think and write at the same time depends on the flow of ink. The thing I enjoy most is the flow of my own ideas and getting them down on paper. I will not write with a ballpoint pen, because it doesn't really flow. That's why I use a fountain pen. And only a fountain pen that really works very well.

So how ironic is that? I would help save a child from abortion and communism by writing a book criticizing feminists for their love of abortion and communism.

Every good author has a trick, a great and mighty trick.

Do not say to yourself, "I've got a book in me!" (huge cliché anyway) and assume that means you are also competent to write a book.

He also cut another bit we liked—a character named Gravy Wallace who loved gravy. That was it—Gravy Wallace loved gravy. Maybe the showrunner was right and it was stupid. But maybe Gravy could've been the next Disco Stu.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That's an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River. I don't know if you know that forests migrate?

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

When we were growing up, he was scolded a lot because he hated going to school. Brother had trouble with reading and writing, but he's good with people and has a remarkable memory. He never forgets anything he hears and can pick up most languages after just a little while of hearing it. He knows some Chinese, English, and Russian, too. He's always been good at fixing machines.

He knew many rich men, strong men, and brave men, yet he was most impressed with educated men who could write well.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office ' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I'm recovering from tuberculosis.