Quotes About Writing

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

I think you have to identify with all your characters to some extent, or they just don't come off the page properly.

was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Come on. You have to live so that you have something to write about.

Critics write words but they don't write the future.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I love it, man I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

The whole paper was you." "Shit don't write itself." "This one story, who was the source?" "Same source I always used. Middle third of a joint." I smiled.

and he was at his computer, hunting-and-pecking like a studious rhino.

Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials.

The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.