Quotes About Writing

Write it however you want to, but start writing!

O my poor words, bear with me. — Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke , ed. David Wagoner (Copper Canyon Press November 1, 2006)

And though they clamor endlessly to ask, "Where do you get your ideas?" (a question I have never heard any SF writer worth her or his salt seriously try to answer), the question, "How do you put these ideas together?" (which, with a little thought and analysis, is sometimes answerable) is much rarer.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.

I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I've been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade.

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story.

I journal at four or five in the morning.

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to write down.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.