Writing Quotes · Page 305

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

— Wilson Follett

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

— Jo Walton

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

— Kabir Khan

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

— William Goldman

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost…

— Dan Chaon

“Our reality may be fabled, but surely will be fleeting, because when the storyteller looks away, the story collapses. In the end,…

— Dennis Vickers

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want…

— Yannis Philippakis

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will…

— Jorja Smith

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living…

— Anna Quindlen

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation…

— Henry David Thoreau

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress,…

— Judy Holliday

“My object in writing the following pages, was not simply to amuse the Reader, neither was it to gratify my own taste,…

— Anne Brontë

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of…

— Rebecca Solnit

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have…

— Paul Auster

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think…

— Richard Ford

“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that…

— Nancy E. Turner

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,…

— Kim Hyesoon

In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But…

— Jason Pierce

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

— Jason Isbell

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang

“Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.”

— Sidney Zion

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

“I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.”

— Chila Woychik

I'd write you a letter, but I just feel you'd miss the word experience.

— Analeigh Tipton

“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I write because I have a meaningful message to deliver, not a book to sell.”

— Ramona Matta

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

— Judith Guest

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

— Roland Barthes

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

— Henry David Thoreau

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

— Hannibal Buress