Quotes of: Write Keyword

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

The Writing Class

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

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

Zen in the Art of Writing

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Zen in the Art of Writing

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Kristin Kreuk

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Christopher Paolini

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

Nadia Ali

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Paul Westerberg

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Atonement

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

How to Write a Letter

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

Mark O'Donnell

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Justin Cronin

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Nathalie Sarraute

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.

Nicole Sager