Quotes and Sayings About Writing

Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on
-- Alan Rusbridger

#Art #Moving #Writing

Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
-- Alan Ryan

#Believe #Writing #Depth

If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.
-- Alan Shearer

#Strong #Writing #Years

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
-- Alan Sillitoe

#Art #Writing #Simplicity

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
-- Alan Watts

#Writing #Study #Paradox

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Live Life #Writing #Songwriting

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Feelings #Pieces

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Sick #Share

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Song #Anger #Writing

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing #Expression #Piano

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Writing

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.
-- Alasdair Gray

#Writing #World #Want

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Country #Book #Writing

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Song #Book #Writing

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Writing #Thinking #Play

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Writing #Thinking #Sms

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
-- Albert Brooks

#Writing #Directors #Comedy

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
-- Albert Brooks

#Writing #Magic #Want

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
-- Albert Brooks

#Writing #Brain #Mosaics

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Civilization #Purpose

Those who write clearly have readers.
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Reader

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Character #May

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
-- Albert Camus

#Wall #Writing #People

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
-- Albert Camus

#Art #Writing #Certain

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
-- Albert Camus

#Lying #Writing #Commitment

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Suffering #Today

Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Novelists #Philosopher

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.
-- Albert Einstein

#Reading #Writing #Looks

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
-- Albert Einstein

#Writing #Thinking #Brain

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
-- Albert Einstein

#Writing #Creative #Unhappy