Writing Quotes · Page 251

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

— Anonymous

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

— Joe Elliott

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

— Tavi Gevinson

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

— Jon Stewart

New writers don't throw tantrums, they have time. I can make them work on one song for a week.

— Rajesh Roshan

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

— William Hague

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

— Pico Iyer

“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if…

— Keith Gessen

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was…

— John Grisham

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of…

— Aaron Belz

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter…

— Don DeLillo

“For me it's hard to write about the nice trees and flowers and happy shit. It's a lot easier to write about…

— Adam Gontier

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they…

— Ben Kingsley

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

— Patrick Kavanagh

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take…

— Maeve Binchy

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut…

— David Bowie

“[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so…

— Umberto Eco

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers…

— Clayton Christensen

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,…

— Augusten Burroughs

When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I…

— Ted Kooser

It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes,…

— Jason Sudeikis

“The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great…

— Annie Dillard

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap…

— Scott Adams

“The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.”

— C. Kennedy

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

— Eric Morecambe

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

— Betty White

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

— Atom Egoyan

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

— Colman Domingo

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

— Ruston Kelly

I've written a lot of songs from watching women speak about women empowerment.

— Anne-Marie

“Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.”

— Lana Axe

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

— Sophie Dahl

How do people write an auto biography? I can barley remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

— Anonymous

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

— James Salter

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

— Bill Withers

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

“Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.”

— Dana Stabenow