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.

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

Everything that happens to you influences your writing.

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

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.

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn.

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

As you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing,/ People writing songs that voices never shared.

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

It limits us from being able to sit down and focus on writing a song. It also affects us because we learn a lot from seeing other bands. It's almost like a great deal of research before we write the new material.

Writing is thinking on paper.

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

It isn't writing at all - it's typing.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.