Writing Quotes · Page 283

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

— Archibald MacLeish

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

— Damian Conway

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

— Dorothy Parker

“These words and these stories can save a life. Who knows – maybe even your own.”

— Jeanette LeBlanc

Freedom - to know thyself and create fully embracing life because of it

— Dax Snaer

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

— Abbi Jacobson

“He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.”

— Shadowlands

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I…

— Patton Oswalt

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market…

— Anthony Minghella

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

— Gail Carriger

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person…

— Rachel Bloom

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to…

— Martin Amis

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a…

— Ravi Shankar

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd…

— Taylor Swift

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the…

— James Fenton

“Alas, many of these long-distance writers are not fascinating thinkers, and it’s a dubious premise that someone who would be dull to…

— Rebecca Solnit

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for…

— John le Carre

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason…

— Lou Reed

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I…

— Andrea Barrett

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many…

— Fanny Fern

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about…

— Ben Gibbard

I had the lyric 'Chip Don't Go' and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like…

— Mat Kearney

There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the…

— Ken Loach

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

— Ree Drummond

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

— Sebastian Lelio

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

— Arthur Smith

We want to celebrate John Sullivan's writing, and hope we've done it justice.

— Paul Whitehouse

“If it’s not truth, Don’t remember it, Don’t write it down, Don’t say it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

— Martha Grimes

“I don't like to write. But I love having written. ”

— Michael Kanin

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

— Will Champion

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

— Anonymous

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

— TRIPURARI