Writing Quotes · Page 285

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

— Edward Albee

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

— William Faulkner

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

— Faith Evans

Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

— Elif Batuman

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

— Mike Newell

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

— Flying Lotus

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on…

— Christina Perri

“An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned.…

— Ann Patchett

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when…

— Chris Bohjalian

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music…

— Zedd

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…

— Joan Didion

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I…

— Lynn Shelton

“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as…

— Evan Grinde

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I…

— Aesha K Shah

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he…

— John Gardner

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How…

— Andrew Bird

I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to…

— Rick Riordan

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to…

— Jonathan Franzen

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world…

— Stewart Stafford

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

— Anonymous

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”

— Tom Conrad

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

— Peter Stone

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

— Bertolt Brecht

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

— Robert H. Schuller

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

— Zelda Popkin

I wanted to write a semi-autobiographical piece that was uplifting and heart-warming.

— Kathy Burke

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

“When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.

— E. A. Bucchianeri

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

— Bill Ayers

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

“Write to me Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.”

— Daniel Glattauer