Writing Quotes · Page 162

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am a part of all I have read.

— Anonymous

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

— Samuel Rogers

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

— J. K. Rowling

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

— Joseph Conrad

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I write I am the real me.

— Ann Rinaldi

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

— Richard Flanagan

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

— Ann Patchett

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

— Louise Erdrich

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

— Kameron Hurley

Sometimes, to write something positive I need to be negative

— Shashank Rayal

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at…

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

“Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult”

— Anne Sigismund Huff

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.…

— Charli XCX

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be…

— Julia Stone

“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing…

— Robin Sloan

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already…

— Marcel Proust

As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same…

— Matthew Ramsey

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's…

— Suzanne Brockmann

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled…

— Garret Holms

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

— Tom Stoppard

I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

People invite you on facebook and they just say nothing: and you complain and say: what is the use of being invited…

— Dumi

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk…

— Andrae Crouch

I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that…

— Cody Johnson

I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in…

— Andy Andrews

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to…

— Jo Nesbo

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every…

— Alexander Woollcott

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.…

— Alice Oswald

“Edit your author as you would be edited.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

— Benjamin Walker

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

— Greta Garbo

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

— Richard Price

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I never took creative writing.

— Jesse Andrews

I love writing about people on the road.

— Cynthia Kadohata

I love writing comics too much.

— Marjorie Liu