Quotes About Writing

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.