Writing Quotes · Page 229

“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.”

— Christy Hall

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play

— Edward Bond

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

— Shavo Odadjian

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

— Henry David Thoreau

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind”

— Munia Khan

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

— Zane Grey

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen…

— Ellen Goodman

“Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer…

— K. Lamb

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do…

— Sharon Kay Penman

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the…

— Donna Karan

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central…

— John Hersey

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still…

— Shane Carruth

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of…

— Daniel Drezner

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need…

— Sue Townsend

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was…

— Rick Riordan

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to…

— Lianne La Havas

Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not…

— Russell T Davies

You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and…

— Geddy Lee

But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,…

— Michel Foucault

...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the…

— Ralph Keyes

Every book in here I wrote, Some I'm not too proud of some I wish I could burn, So many pages I…

— Frank Ocean

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.”

— Neil Young

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

— Jean Burden

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

— Justine Larbalestier

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

— Phil Elvrum

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

— Gerard Way

“You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.”

— Rick Aster

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

— Peter David

“If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever”

— Munia Khan

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

— Alanis Morissette

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

“Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage”

— M.L. Kilian

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

— David E. Kelley

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

— James M. Cain

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

— Ernest Hemingway