Writing Quotes · Page 136

“My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.”

— George R.R. Martin

I only write when listening to the music.

— Mod Sun

Life writes the best stories.

— Niko Kovac

I really, really, really love writing comics.

— Zoe Quinn

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

— Joan Collins

It's harder to read code than to write it.

— Joel Spolsky

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

— Robert Burton

If you don't know it, don't write it.

— Darrell Schweitzer

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

“Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?”

— Kathleen Jamie

“When all is said and done, I hope people will judge me by who I am, not by what I've written.”

— Jack Tate

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John

“A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.”

— Italo Calvino

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

— Henry James

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

— Chuck Mangione

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create'…

— Geoff Mulgan

In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In…

— Elaine Equi

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going…

— Rose Tremain

When you're writing about someone feeling so isolated and so lonely, when the making of it becomes collaborative, that's a special thing.

— Eva Victor

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I…

— Frederick Busch

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date…

— Chris Cleave

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're…

— Iain Banks

I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

— Steve Martin

Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in…

— Tom Rosenstiel

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.…

— Adam Morris

I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which…

— Carrie Brownstein

“The writer C. S. Lewis once characterized this style of argument: “The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the…

— Naomi Oreskes

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but…

— Farley Mowat

I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War…

— Rhiannon Giddens

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

— Peter Milligan

“Good writing is where precision meets passion.”

— Nancy Rue

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

— Bob the Drag Queen

“Beware of being only a writer.”

— Miranda Paul

I don't care about writing really.

— Ang Lee

I don't what the fuck to write

— UdshfuaH

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

— Ray Bradbury