Writing Quotes · Page 331

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”

— Terri Costola

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

— Amity Gaige

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

— Obie Trice

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

— Mary Roach

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

— Elliott Smith

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

— Douglas Brunt

Some days writing flows like a stream and there are times I get stuck.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive…

— Neil Gaiman

“we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.”

— Ruskin Bond

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as…

— Octavia Butler

Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live…

— Gulzar

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone…

— Tommy Bolin

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your…

— Eden Robinson

Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of…

— Bart Millard

We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything…

— Brendan Bayliss

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also…

— Mark Twain

“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have…

— Junot Díaz

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when…

— Ciaran Carson

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'…

— Victor Hugo

“It's true that some commenters and email correspondents challenge writers to examine certain posts, but for the most part, blog readers are…

— Audacia Ray

I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because…

— Steve Coogan

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

— Dorothy Fields

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

— Chrys Fey

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

“Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk? Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.”

— Alice in wonderland

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

— Natalia Lafourcade

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.”

— Erzabet Bishop

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

— Lee DeWyze

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

I wasn't good at writing big banger tracks because that wasn't in my heart.

— Mija

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

— Sylvia Plath

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

— Stanley Cavell