Writing Quotes · Page 257

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

— Dan Bejar

My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.

— Jani Lane

If you look at any of my movies I write, direct, edit, and produce them.

— Ti West

“It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.”

— David Carr

“Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel.”

— Carl Henegan

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

— Danielle Campbell

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing…

— William Sleator

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the…

— Hoagy Carmichael

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working…

— Bill Hader

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very…

— Thom Gunn

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste…

— Ted Allen

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to…

— Harlan Coben

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

— James Ellroy

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send…

— Candace Bushnell

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like…

— Anne Sexton

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine…

— Don Novello

Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized…

— Douglass North

Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of…

— Gerald Durrell

“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and…

— Téa Obreht

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists…

— Haruki Murakami

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter,…

— Ben Gibbard

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

— Victor Levin

The only people who truly know your story, are the ones who help you write it.

— Anonymous

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

— Tony DiCicco

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

— Walter Kirn

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

It's hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.

— Stephen McCauley

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

— Frank Herbert

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

— Stephen King

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

— Jean Houston

“Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.”

— Carlos Bulosan

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo