Best empty & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

Writing Stuff Rooms Paper Sitting Empty Performing Interviews

Author:Randy Newman

“Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.”

Writing Sometimes Empty Rhythm Fury

Author:Stephen Spender

“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”

Writing Long Shows Problem Pages Empty Awful Shells Composition Find Me Here And Now Lonesome Empty Shell

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.”

Knows World Writing Done Desire Empty Boast Authorship

Book:The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

Ifs Writing Wells Stills I Can Night Found Dark Plans One Thing Tomorrow Summer Window Empty Paid Dues Golden Midst Lit Stormy Inns Writing Every Day Stormy Nights

Author:Tanith Lee

“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Wonderful Creating Pages Empty Bases Exciting Originals Plus Wonderful Things Thrilling Typing Creating Something

Author:Carl Reiner

“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”

Writing Mind May Moving Pleasure Strange Paper Empty Crowds Fabulous Herds Of My Mind Corridors

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.”

Writing Mean Shows White Empty Praise Wit Teeth

Author:John Brown

“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Writing Book Ends Waiting Empty Beach Dry Tides Shells

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.”

Men Writing Class Empty Sexism Categories Masculinity Verbs Nouns

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.”

Needs Writing Areas Empty Surround Nests Suspension

Book:Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories

Source: Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

World Writing Persons Self Humanity Rooms Company Virtue Written Loneliness Solitude Conversation Empty Letters Assuming Prime Telephones My Thoughts Imaginative Immediacy Empty Rooms

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.”

“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.”

“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source: Writing for children and teen-agers

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Writing Wells Stills Night Powerful Spring Empty Feds Deep Thought Inspiring Writing Moveable Feast Refills

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!”

Writing Ideas Use Brain Leader Stupid Speech Ethics Empty Prepared Honour Bottles Write Your Own Nehru Good Ethics

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”

“It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.”

“The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.”

Writing May Book Sin Devil Angel Labor Empty Merit Guardian Guardian Angel

Author:John Vianney

“A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."”

Knows Writing Home Age Party Empty Died Old Age Stomach Falsehood Epitaph Ragged Empty Stomach

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.”

Ifs Way Writing House Empty My Time Bottles Gave Up Obsessive Bombing Soda Skyscraper Yarn

Author:Eden Robinson

“When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva”

Writing Trying Running Song Wonderful Baby Empty Gentle Just Do It

Author:Don McLean

“I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.”

World Writing Kind Enough Loneliness Empty Isolation

Author:Dan Chaon

“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”

Writing Rich Strange Painting Wall Empty Opposites Juicy

Author:Tom Robbins

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”

Writing Made Stories Empty Sad And Happy

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.”

People Men Writing War Nations Party Leader Knowing Empty Corruption Saved Voting Temper Partisans Great Nations True Man Quacks

Author:William James

“For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.”

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”

Writing Art Important Book Ideas Ends Hands Process Creativity Magic Materials Empty Gold Important Things Void Material Things

Author:Alan Moore

“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

Writing Two Ideas Stories Shows Seems Together Jobs Sun Clear One Thing Sky Right Now Empty No Idea Islands Something New Buried Sailing Good Story Dump

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.”

Writing Book Ends Would Be Lasts White Rooms Air Wind Pages Empty Silent Sat Chairs Sheets Fluttering

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

Ifs Writing Mind Literature Empty Mad Journal Journal Writing

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Ifs Writing Years Running House Hurt Rooms Laughing Air Bed Clothes Laughter Bird Empty Letters Filled Afternoon Mary Embarrassed Feathers Hurt Me Small Rooms Empty Houses Schoolmates

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to his heart’s best brother—” “Oh, by the Angel, Will, do be quiet,” said Charlotte, standing up. “I must go and write a letter to Aloysius Starkweather that drips remorse and pleading. I don’t need you distracting me.” And, gathering up her skirts, she hurried from the room. “No appreciation for the arts,” Will murmured, setting his teacup down.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.”

Writing Mean Littles Doe Kids Courses Given Brain Creative College Pages Empty Down And Scared Myth Impression Symbols Beast Significance Hiding Creative Writing Swarms Melville Pomposity

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

Writing Feelings Light White Doubt One Thing Pages Tasks Empty Absence Novelists Void Blank When In Doubt Blank Pages White Light

Author:Philip Sington

“Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.”

Knows Writing Wells Said Book Dream School Lasts Secret One Day Kissing Summer Empty Meetings Upset Girlfriend Classroom Tease Last Summer Funny Harry Potter

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.”

People Want Writing Ideas Running Water Empty Breaths Smell Emptiness Filling Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.”

Writing Three Internet Computer Empty Desks Email Paperwork

Author:Lee Child

“When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.”

World Writing May Seems Difficult Simple Talent Empty Publishing Resisting Cathedrals Warehouse Citadels

Author:Alan Garner

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.”

Writing Firsts Mean Made Book Hard Stories Light Happens Next Waiting Hurt Morning Cold Empty Warm Every Morning Next Day Filling One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Feels Writing Mind Pain Pleasure Personality Empty Mad Contrary Torture Composition

Author:Lord Byron

“Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to abandon a half-finished work because you can't make it perfect. I hereby give you permission to write things that aren't perfect, make mistakes, try things that don't work, experiment with styles you're not used to and generally throw words around. You'll learn much faster that way.”

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