The best quotes about Writing

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

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

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Rapping to prove nothing, just writing to say something
Cause I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t rushing to saying nothing
This doesn’t mean I lost my dream
It’s just right now I got a really crazy mind to clean

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Doubts startin' to creep in, every day it's just so gray and black
Hope, I just need a ray of that
‘Cause no one sees my vision when I play it for ‘em
They just say it's wack, but they don’t know what dope is
And I don’t know if I was awake or asleep when I wrote this

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I listen to my words, but they fall far below
I let my music take me, where my heart wants to go

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

To my dear beautiful daughter,

I'm writing you a letter. That's right, a good old-fashioned letter. It's a lost art, really. I have a confession to make. I didn't like you very much at first. You were just this annoying, little blob. You smelled nice. Most of the time. But you didn't seem to have much interest in me. Which I, of course, found vaguely insulting.

It was just you and your mom against the world... funny how some things never change. So I cruised along, doing my thing, acting the fool, not really understanding how being a parent changes you. And I don't remember the exact moment everything changed. I just know that it did.

One minute I was impenetrable. Nothing could touch me. The next, my heart was somehow beating outside my chest, exposed to the elements. Loving you has been the most profound, intense, painful experience of my life. In fact, it's been almost too much to bear. As your father, I made a silent vow to protect you from the world, never realizing I was the one who would end up hurting you the most.

When I flash forward, my heart breaks. Mostly because I can't imagine you speaking of me with any sort of pride. How could you? Your father is a child in a man's body. He cares for nothing and everything at the same time. Noble in thought, weak in action. Something has to change. Something has to give. It's getting dark... too dark to see.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

People... they don't write anymore - they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.