Quotes About Writing

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It's great. It's just a lot of fun to write, and it's wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It's just great.

One habit that's important for keeping me mentally healthy is having meaningful conversations with the people around me. That's a habit that fuels my body and my mind. I also like to go to the beach and write, and I've been trying to focus on giving myself time to be alone.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.