Writing Quotes · Page 290

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

— N. K. Jemisin

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

— Lloyd Alexander

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

— Smokey Robinson

“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.”

— Kerry Frith

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

— Henning Mankell

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

— Bishop Briggs

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it.

— John Densmore

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

— Julie Salamon

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

— Mark Foster

“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to…

— Julia Holter

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt…

— Hank Green

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess…

— Caleb Shomo

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since…

— Stephan Pastis

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like…

— Tom Hardy

As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which…

— Robert Hass

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces…

— Paul Simon

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing…

— Tim Cahill

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime…

— Linwood Barclay

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a…

— Matt Mullenweg

We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal…

— Carla Azar

“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks…

— David Gilmour

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

— David Foster Wallace

Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

— John H. Groberg

The most important thing you can do is to write for yourself.

— Stephenie Meyer

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

— Leonard Cohen

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

— Jim Rash

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

— Erik Larson

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

— Franklin P. Adams

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee

A director in films is closer allied to the writer than anyone else.

— Van Heflin

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

— Shonda Rhimes

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott