Writing Quotes · Page 326

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

— David Belasco

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

— Limahl

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

— Antoine Rivarol

“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.”

— Janet H. Murray

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”

— William Faulkner

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd…

— Josh Ryan Evans

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to…

— Ned Rorem

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I…

— A. N. Wilson

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,

— Thomas P. Campbell

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

— Nicholas Sparks

“It’s not that I don’t write fairy stories because I don’t believe in fairies. I don’t write fairy stories because fairies don’t…

— Daniel Kemp

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric…

— Amy Ray

Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in…

— Anonymous

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's…

— James Payn

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in…

— Robert Hunter

For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to…

— Cornelius Eady

“Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through…

— Tina Fey

I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like…

— Breece D'J Pancake

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be…

— Michael O'Brien

“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I…

— Alejandro Escovedo

“It has always seemed to me to imply some abstract learning scenario wherein a generic would-be writer is acted upon by unnamed…

— Harris Crenshaw

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

— Taylor Swift

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

— Laurence Fox

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

— Rick Springfield

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

— Sebastian Bach

I'm very flattered the press wants to write about me.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.”

— Jacqueline Patricks

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

— Dan Bucatinsky

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

— Harvey Pekar

“I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”

— Sanober Khan

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

— William Carlos Williams