Quotes About Writing

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.