Top Writing Quotes

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

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.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's o...

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness...

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Life is short. Write naked.

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.