Top 100 Quotes About Writing Philosophy
#1. My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
Amity Gaige
#2. As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
Andre Dubus III
#3. My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
Amanda Peet
#4. I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#5. When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
Samuel Colbran
#6. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#7. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.
Stan D. Jensen
#8. I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
Mark Twain
#9. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#10. One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.
Gail Godwin
#11. Write what you want to write; don't fear about who will read it.
Debasish Mridha
#13. I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.
Lara Pulver
#14. The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.
Bankei Yotaku
#15. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.
Wesley D. Gray
#17. My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
Writer's Digest Books
#18. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#19. Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one.
Tarang Sinha
#20. I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.
Debasish Mridha
#21. He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
Stephen King
#22. More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
M.V. Carey
#24. The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Jonathan Swift
#25. If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.
Yvonne Jayne
#27. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
Ray Bradbury
#28. When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.
Richard Pinhas
#30. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#31. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#32. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
#33. My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
Kim Elizabeth
#35. Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Jonathan Franzen
#36. In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.
Henry Martin
#37. Dedicating a writing session to someone is like sending a prayer for them out into the world. I will never know if my writing, my dedication to them, my prayer for them made any difference in their lives. But I know it makes a difference in mine.
Elizabeth Rusch
#39. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
King Samuel Benson
#40. I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Write what you believe to be true; don't worry about who agrees or disagrees with you.
Debasish Mridha
#43. A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.
Avijeet Das
#44. I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
Cheryl Mendelson
#45. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle.
#46. As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
Criss Jami
#48. To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
Noel Coward
#49. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
- Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
The Silkworm
J.K. Rowling
#50. The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
Mason Cooley
#51. Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?
Terry Eagleton
#52. I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
Stephen J. Cannell
#53. Writing is a wonderful voyage of discovery. So sit down and write, and see where your mind can take you ...
Sarah Jane Avory
#54. My writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind.
Debasish Mridha
#55. We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
Henry David Thoreau
#57. The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#58. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Avijeet Das
#60. What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?
You focus on the really good ones!
Storm Princeholm
#62. Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.
Charles Kettering
#64. Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
Haruki Murakami
#65. It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.
Tom McCarthy
#66. Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do.
J. Carter Swift
#67. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#70. Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time.
Samuel R. Delany
#72. Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.
Debasish Mridha
#74. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.
Debasish Mridha
#77. I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.
Alan Dapre
#78. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#79. A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#80. The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Writing reflects life and life is a mystery. All any of us can do is press the fleet footed beauty of life close to our flesh and use whatever instruments are within our grasp to express the evanescent spark of mysticism that resides within us.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#82. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#84. Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.
J.P. Donleavy
#85. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
Munia Khan
#86. (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.
Bertrand Russell
#87. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
E.A. De Graaf
#88. I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don't separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Etel Adnan
#89. I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
Carla H. Krueger
#90. Indeed, when you write, the point isn't to make your reader understand. The point is to make him or her feel.
Scott Edelstein
#91. I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the most delicious cherries on a cake one left for later so they can be savored to the utmost.
Sahara Sanders
#93. I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#94. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
Jakub Marian
#95. A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you.
Debasish Mridha
#97. For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
Brett Armstrong
#98. I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
Chuck D
#99. Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!
Avijeet Das
#100. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.
M.E. Vaughan
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