Writing Quotes · Page 223

I love writing and producing but I don't think a lot of people know my artist stuff.

— MNEK

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

— Sean Penn

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

— Skylar Grey

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

“Writers should measure their life not in years, but in moments of writing.”

— J. Alchem

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

— Douglas Wood

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three…

— J. K. Rowling

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

— Ben Hecht

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious…

— Yayoi Kusama

I found that direction is the most enjoyable part in filmmaking. The easiest and most comfortable is acting and the loneliest and…

— Anoop Menon

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

— Anne Lamott

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't…

— Dan Jenkins

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

— Ayn Rand

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or…

— George Russell

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that…

— John Updike

You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -…

— Ryan Ross

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand…

— Jo Nesbo

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside,…

— Tim Cahill

What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares…

— James Harbord

When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer…

— Rajneesh

I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine…

— Martin Millar

Politicians employ speech writers as ventriloquists.

— George F Will

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

— Dacia Maraini

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

— Todd Barry

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

— Robert B. Parker

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

— Harold Ramis

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

— Frankie Cosmos

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

— Lauren Graham

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

— Tom Verlaine

“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

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

— Horace

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

— Lytton Strachey

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

— Elizabeth Warren