Writing Quotes · Page 268

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”

— Neeraj Singhvi

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

— Nicky Jam

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

— Anthony Liccione

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

— Mark Frost

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those…

— Ben Gibbard

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their…

— F. Paul Wilson

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

— Eli Roth

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he…

— William Faulkner

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to…

— Rainbow Rowell

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

— Samuel Johnson

You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing…

— Pope John Paul I

When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you…

— Cody Johnson

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write…

— Brandi Carlile

“Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied "For praise." Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote…

— James Salter

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped…

— Stephen King

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a…

— Mara Wilson

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,…

— Simin Behbahani

I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too…

— Andrea Gabriel

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.

— Ted Alexandro

“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.”

— Benjamin Percy

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

— V. S. Naipaul

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

— William Faulkner

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

— Chuck Berry

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

— Dave Finkel