Writing Quotes · Page 242

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

— Ingmar Bergman

“I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.”

— Anonymous

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

— Fran Lebowitz

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

— Aimee Mann

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

— Dolly Parton

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that…

— George Meyer

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a…

— Mary Jo Salter

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very…

— David Draiman

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore…

— Cris Mazza

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out…

— Lisa Marie Presley

If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I'm all…

— Rob Morgan

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was…

— Khalid

I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset…

— Emily Giffin

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way…

— Marianne Williamson

“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel…

— Anne Lamott

“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who…

— Nick Hornby

If I get to go crazy, since God can't be limited, than I would love to be part of a small team…

— Cynthia Garrett

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my…

— Cassie Steele

Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful…

— Lynn Coady

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was…

— Graham Swift

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

— Clare B. Dunkle

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

— Jean Stafford

“If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!”

— Robert Scott

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

— Mackenzie Astin

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood

“By writing quotes... I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.”

— Toba Beta

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

— John Hutton

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

— Neil Gaiman

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

— Lin Yutang

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

— Martin Gardner