Writing Quotes · Page 172

Other-Love is writing's first name.

— Helene Cixous

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess

“Your pen is your sword. Wield it wisely.”

— C.A. Simonson

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield

“sad is the poem i will never write”

— Jeet how Romentic

“Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.”

— Jessica Bell

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

— Abi Morgan

“Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.”

— Teodor Burnar

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

“one sign of a writer’s potential is his especially sharp ear—and eye—for language.”

— John Gardner

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

— Larry Wilmore

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

— Richard Brautigan

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

— Ruskin Bond

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

— James T. Farrell

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to…

— Melanie Lynskey

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks…

— Sheikh Abdullah

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

— Jim Root

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the…

— Mary Gauthier

I write from a personal perspective, but sometimes seeing something in the street like that will spark something that reminds me of…

— Arlo Parks

“When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing…

— Neil Gaiman

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

— Rod Serling

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When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I…

— Geoff Zanelli

I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the…

— Robby Takac

Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than…

— Leonard Michaels

“The most interesting aspect of this culture of repudiation has been the attack on the central place accorded to reason in human…

— Roger Scruton

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that…

— Lyle Lovett

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like,…

— Lynn Coady

I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather…

— Sandra Cisneros

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL...”

— Madison Daniel

Good comedy writing is always coming from truth.

— Kate Herron

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

— Lord Byron

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

— Tim Roth

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

— Italo Calvino

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

— John Keats

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs