Writing Quotes · Page 1,222

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor…

— Katie Dippold

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.…

— David Byrne

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they…

— Rakim

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

— C. E. M. Joad

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about…

— Bette Davis

“Monsoon Love is a love story with a few comic twists. The idea for this story came to me when I went…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.…

— Anna Ternheim

To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage,…

— Don Rickles

“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,…

— Alice Notley

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of…

— Virginia Woolf

“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will…

— Chitralekha Paul

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects…

— Bill Bryson

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless…

— Lukas Foss

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I…

— Lisa Loeb

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to…

— Gore Vidal

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I…

— Cole Swindell

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,…

— Brenda Ueland

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put…

— Bill Wyman

Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something…

— Matt Thiessen

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be…

— Steve Forbert

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another…

— Christian Bauman

I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from…

— Johnny Flynn

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to…

— Greg Iles

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

— Julia Cameron

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

— Franklin Pierce Adams

I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people.

— Kyle

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

— Denise Duhamel

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

— Taiye Selasi

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely…

— Gene Weingarten

It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to…

— Edgar Wright

I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.…

— Michaela Coel

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist