Robert B. Weide Quotes

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

Reading taught me how to write.

Writing is a communication.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I love making up titles.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

If you can talk, you can write.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.