Writing Quotes · Page 345

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

— Nick Cave

“As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.”

— Benjamin Bayani

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

— P. G. Wodehouse

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

— Ernest Renan

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope…

— Mark L Lloyd

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and…

— Jim Gaffigan

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela,…

— Isabel Allende

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

— Craig David

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all…

— Bryan Cranston

“Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season.”

— Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I…

— Cameron Crowe

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's…

— Joan Baez

I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody…

— Chelsea Martin

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and…

— John Mortimer

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to…

— Ronald Frame

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity…

— Anne Rice

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I…

— Tess Gallagher

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

— Mark Twain

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

— Anonymous

“I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.”

— Katharine Hepburn

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

— Neil Gaiman

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

— Douglas Adams

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

“The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

— LP

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

“to play a solitary game of chequers, to read, to write – what should I do?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

Because when I write I like to think who would be the actor who would play it.

— Karan Soni

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

— Joe Haldeman