Top Writing Quotes

Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:

Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...

Writing Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write

(n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

(n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters

(n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.

(n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.

(n.) An inscription.

(n.) Handwriting; chirography.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that w...

The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywher...

Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to r...

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the F...

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyo...

Further editing deepens a story.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.