Writing Quotes · Page 344

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

— Bryce Dessner

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

“Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.”

— Chrys Fey

“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”

— Michael P. Naughton

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

— Lights

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

— Analeigh Tipton

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you…

— Zadie Smith

“We writers love our wanderings. In search of newer experiences and newer fragrances, we keep drifting from place to place!”

— Avijeet Das

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's…

— Jim Rash

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful…

— Alexander McCall Smith

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

— Katherine Dunn

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There…

— Anonymous

I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or…

— Poo Bear

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm…

— Ronald Harwood

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided…

— Goapele

“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can…

— Philip Larkin

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,…

— Jose Saramago

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But…

— Sarah Jio

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors,…

— William Fichtner

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape…

— Meia Geddes

I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take…

— David Sedaris

I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.

— Sam Fender

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

— Claire Tomalin

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

— Nicola Roberts

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

— Gary Paulsen

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

— John Mulaney

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

— Stephen Hawking

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

“Writing? whatever you are writing about i support you...In my eyes you are talented - Rayvon L Browne”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Everything is written in this stone heart...can u please erase it ?

— Ritesh

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

— Octavia Butler

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

— Taylor Swift

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

— Natalie Goldberg

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

— John Cleese