Writing Quotes · Page 318

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

— Richard Rodney Bennett

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

— Bruce Vilanch

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

— Walter Savage Landor

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

— Nicola Cornick

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Natalie Goldberg

Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I just write a little bit on piano. I'm not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I…

— Lorrie Morgan

The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become…

— Bear McCreary

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own…

— Emily Carr

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in…

— Mother Teresa

“O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write. But sometimes, when I get hold of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood…

— Mark Twain

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with…

— Eric Hutchinson

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories…

— Sherwood Anderson

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents;…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people…

— Edward Allen Bernero

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out…

— Ray Bradbury

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything…

— Alberto Manguel

“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without…

— Olivia Arthur

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a…

— Barry Hannah

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they…

— Donald McKay

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

— Kool Keith

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

— Charles Kuralt

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

— Lewis Grizzard

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

— Pankaj Kapur

“Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.”

— Richard Bowes

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

— Michael Ondaatje

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

— Julianne MacLean

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

— Cole Porter

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

— Tara Moss

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

— John Adams

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

— Alex Comfort

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

— Lily King

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

— Hugh Lofting