Writing Dreaming Quotes

#1. When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#2. I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Robert Stone

#4. Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Adam Young

#5. What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

Selima Hill

#6. The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.

Mark W. Boyer

#7. I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

#8. Identifying Your Dream
Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.

SARK

#9. To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.

Mary Oliver

#10. When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Grant Heslov

#11. We sit on park benches and beaches and couches and hilltops, listening and dreaming seemingly to no particular purpose. But isn't it often the case that when we cease to move and think, we see and hear and understand a great deal?

Brian Doyle

#12. Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.

Tyrone Jaeger

#13. All writing is dreaming

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Siri Hustvedt

#15. When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller

#17. Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.

Ksenia Anske

#18. Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

Sylvia Plath

#19. From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

Jonis Agee

#20. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Alex G. Zarate

#21. For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

Michael Morpurgo

#22. Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

Val Richards

#23. Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion

#24. My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.

A.P. Sweet

#25. There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Washington Irving

#26. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .

Clive Barker

#27. First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.

T.C. Boyle

#28. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon

Jaeda DeWalt

#29. They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Roberta Gellis

#31. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

SARK

#32. Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

John Mayer

#33. Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn't just come to you.

R.M. Engelhardt

#34. For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. ... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.

Margaret Atwood

#35. Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep.

Fennel Hudson

#36. Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

Rose Tremain

#37. The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.

Seamus Heaney

#38. Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

Christy Hall

#39. Writing, it seems to me, is a secret act - as secret as dreaming - and that was one aspect of this strange and dangerous craft I had never thought about much.

Stephen King

#40. I drank in his smell, I'd missed him so much more than I'd realised. Despite dreaming of him every night, besides my secret habit of writing Honour Hussain in curled scripts on every scrap piece of paper, I surprised myself by how much I needed him.

Ruth Ahmed

#41. For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Anthony Doerr

#42. Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Haruki Murakami

#43. Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Joyce Carol Oates

#44. Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

P.D. James

#45. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery