Writing Quotes · Page 31

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

I don't believe in writing people off.

— Rico Love

I'm like a junkie for writing.

— Gavin DeGraw

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

— David E. Kelley

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

— Anne Sexton

I am a part of all I have read.

— Anonymous

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

— Samuel Rogers

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

— David Adams Richards

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

As an actress I am always interested in the new writers.

— Donna McKechnie

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

— David Hume

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a…

— Tennessee Williams

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy,…

— Henry Rollins

I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn,…

— Frank Deford

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

— Anthony Hopkins

I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley…

— Jeremy Limn

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make…

— Carl Hiaasen

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds…

— Truman Capote

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found…

— Kina Grannis

“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is…

— Ann Lamott

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I…

— James Rollins

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come…

— Hans Zimmer

“An unthinkable thought is not one that hasn't occurred to somebody, nor is it a thought that somebody considers to be wrong.…

— Charles Baxter

There are things about the South - the politics, the classism, the racism - that I hate, and I want to be…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think there are things that need changing obviously. I think there are things that I think we overdid on the first…

— Michael Angelakos

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~…

— Anonymous

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and…

— John Hodgman

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.”

— Wesley McNair

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

— Anonymous

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

— Lauren Alaina

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

— Thomas Lux