Quotes about Writing, page 2

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

Quote by Ansel Adams about writing

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no...

Quote by John Adams about writing

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Quote by Russell Baker about writing

And he's writing a book right now that's going to be a little bit stronger than my book. But he really went through hell to get me out of prison.

Quote by Jim Bakker about writing

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Quote by Jim Bakker about writing

I got to sing, and that is my truest love of all, that and writing.

Quote by Kim Basinger about writing

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about writing

I hate writing.

Quote by Al Alvarez about writing

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Quote by Al Alvarez about writing

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about writing

You fail only if you stop writing.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about writing

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

Quote by Ray Bradbury about writing

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Quote by Barbara Taylor Bradford about writing

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Quote by Michael Caine about writing

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that...

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I...

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Quote by Orson Scott about writing

Dali kept coming up in my research. I was reading a lot of The New Yorker magazines from that time, week after week after week of incredibly detailed snapshots of the city from each year that I was writing about.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing