Writing Quotes · Page 276

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

— Kaskade

“You’d think that, for a writer, you’d retire the same old phrase after the second use.”

— Nicole Williams

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

— Moon Unit Zappa

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

— Christina Ricci

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way.

— Danny Mcbride

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

— Leonard Cohen

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

“Your writing blows , by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that…

— David Sedaris

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more…

— V. S. Pritchett

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I…

— Haruki Murakami

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a…

— Rebecca West

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class.…

— Thomas Lennon

Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the…

— Karan Mahajan

Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever…

— Kate Christensen

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an…

— Danny Pino

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in…

— John Steinbeck

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as…

— Michael Hersch

Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the…

— Peter Selgin

If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less…

— Mark-Anthony Turnage

As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but…

— George R. R. Martin

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action…

— Michael Ignatieff

At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about…

— Glenn Kelman

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

— Melvin Van Peebles

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

— Carine Roitfeld

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

— Rupert Hart-Davis

I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A great writer is a blitzed illusionist of portable magic. You're welcome.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

This is exactly what I was loikong for. Thanks for writing!

— Janai

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

— Patrick Rothfuss

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

'Monstress' has been hard because I want to keep writing longer, but I can't.

— Marjorie Liu

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

— Brandon Sanderson