Unlocks Writing Quotes

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. ~ Lake Bell

Nothing writes itself. Left to its own devices, the world will never transform into words, & no matter how many pages of notes & interviews & documents a reporting trip generates, the one that matters most always starts out blank. ~ Casey Cep

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. ~ Stephen King

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was. ~ Sol Luckman

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. ~ Tom Stoppard

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams ... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going. ~ Trudi Canavan

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. ~ Fred Frith

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time. ~ Joe Craig

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. ~ Jake Black

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them. ~ Michael Haneke

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. ~ Barbara Tuchman

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. ~ Octavia E. Butler

With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves. ~ Judith Guest

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. ~ Josh Peck

Dear 2600: ... So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out?
This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action. ~ Emmanuel Goldstein

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ... ~ John Geddes

It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it. ~ Nicholas Sparks

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing. ~ Rosanne Cash

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed. ~ Shiloh Walker

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing. ~ Karl Kraus

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. ~ Jami Attenberg

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing. ~ Jason Mraz

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity. ~ Louis MacNeice

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories. ~ Franny Armstrong

The word 'photography' literally means "writing with light. ~ Mary E. Foster

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. ~ Daniel Handler

I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL ~ Keturah Lamb

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ~ Greg Egan

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos