Writing Quotes · Page 280

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

— John Grisham

“I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.”

— Turcois Ominek

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

— Colson Whitehead

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I've written a Manifesto. It's all in the Manifesto!

— Theodore Kaczynski

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

— Nikki Giovanni

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

— Clive Owen

“The biblical writings have an inherent authority as works uniquely inspired by God. Canonization is the process of recognizing that inherent authority,…

— Robert L. Plummer

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to…

— James Lasdun

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that…

— Martin Amis

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”

— Roman Payne

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written…

— Adrian Pasdar

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is…

— Jill Talbot

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that…

— Phil Cornwell

“She was also sure that having experienced the act first hand would probably benefit her writing. If anything she should have sex…

— R.L. Mathewson

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who…

— Ross Macdonald

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a…

— Annie Dillard

Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock…

— Robert Pollard

We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly…

— Matt Berninger

I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or…

— Lzzy Hale

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about…

— Anonymous

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

— Colin Hay

“I like to read them and write them," I say shyly. Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.”

— Willow Aster

“He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it.”

— R.G. Alexander

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

— Gene Simmons

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

— Taylor Swift

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

— S. E. Hinton

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

— Johnny Vegas

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald