Quotes and Sayings about Writing (Page 2)

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.