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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

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

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

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.