Writing Quotes

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I have a writing addiction.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Everything that happens to you influences your writing.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

I had the idea of using Glen Benton on the song before even writing anything. However, instead of writing a typical death metal song, I wanted to do something a little more structured, even hooky, while still maintaining death metal and blast beat aspects.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.