Lord Byron Quotes

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school because in the '80, it was the thing to do. I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business, but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.