Writing Quotes · Page 241

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

— J. J. Abrams

My soul is to write ballads - that's what pours out of me, dude.

— Jelly Roll

“I am the words of my book but sometimes I'm written wrong”

— Zeeuuusss

“Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

— Seth Godin

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

— Jillian Hervey

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three…

— Kate Bush

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.…

— Jonathan Lethem

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about…

— Meg Wolitzer

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and…

— Woody Allen

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed…

— Debra Dean

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

— LeVar Burton

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would…

— Michael Ondaatje

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write…

— Joe Rogan

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it…

— Michael Pollan

I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I…

— Anne Lamott

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of…

— Karan Mahajan

“I think there have been a lot of writers who’ve been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a…

— Tom Perrotta

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting…

— Anna Quindlen

“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”

— Melodie Ramone

“Writing has significantly improved my ability to lie.”

— Gerry Stimmler

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

— Anthony McCarten

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

— Mary Heaton Vorse

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

— SonReal

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

— Clive Cussler

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

— Allison Silverman

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

— Blaise Cendrars

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert

You cannot control what people say, think, and write about you.

— Erling Haaland

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.”

— Ally Condie