Atmospheric Writing Quotes

The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless
a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer. ~ William Faulkner

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened. ~ Richard Hell

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours. ~ A.A. Patawaran

Dreams are meant to be realized, not broken. ~ Michael A. Rockwell

Our words must seem to be inevitable. ~ William Butler Yeats

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing ... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids. ~ Claire Cameron

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. ~ William Targ

People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live? ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Writing is a lonely profession. ~ Bob Mayer

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Madoc thought I was dirt under his shoe. Screw him. ~ Penelope Douglas

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. ~ Anne Lamott

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it. ~ William Zinsser

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. ~ Brian Harvey

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess. ~ James Young

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly. ~ Richard LaGravenese

When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe ~ Emma Abdullah

I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that. ~ Kimbra

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. ~ Jamie L. Harding

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close ... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write ... ~ Walter Benjamin

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand. ~ William Golding

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. ~ Jessamyn West

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. ~ Shelby Lynne

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing. ~ Carol Morgan

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain! ~ Miranda Hart

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. ~ Ruth Rendell

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. ~ Tennessee Williams

When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice I'd been given over the years was.

And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman. I was writing a comic that people loved and were taking seriously. King had like Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw a madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this:

"This is really great. You should enjoy it."

And I didn't. Best advice I got that I ignored. Instead I worried about it. I worried about the next deadline, the next idea, the next story. There wasn't a moment for the next fourteen or fifteen years that I wasn't writing something in my head, or wondering about it. And I didn't stop and look around and go, This is really fun. I wish I'd enjoyed it more. It's been an amazing ride. But there were parts of the ride I missed, because I was too worried about things going wrong, about what came next, to enjoy the bit I was on.

That was the hardest lesson for me, I think: to let go and enjoy the ride, because the ride takes you to some remarkable and unexpected places. ~ Neil Gaiman

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. ~ Kanye West

I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that concert, he can't be thinking of his fingering or of his hands, he has to be thinking of his interpretation. He's thinking of what he's trying to communicate. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too. ~ Margaret Mead

I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something. ~ Zac Farro