Writing Quotes · Page 355

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

— Angeles Mastretta

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

— Amy Lee

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

— Dolly Parton

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

— Walter J. Ong

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

— Colin Dexter

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

— Eric Lander

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

— Dorothy Allison

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.

— Hal David

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something…

— Carl Henegan

I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when…

— Nate Parker

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then…

— Mamie Gummer

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

— Graydon Carter

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to…

— Amy Grant

The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you…

— Austin Kleon

As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining…

— Marjorie Liu

I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but…

— Thomas Grennan

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as…

— Lana Del Rey

There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless…

— Brandi Carlile

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or…

— Janet Frame

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight…

— Roxane Gay

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from…

— Stevie Wonder

I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better…

— Jason C. Miller

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem…

— Rivers Cuomo

“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into…

— Steven James

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

— John Williams

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

— Leslie Jones

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

— Tennessee Williams

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

— Jonathan Lynn

“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...”

— Richard Rodriguez

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

— Jonathan Waterman

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

— James Toback

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live…

— Rakim

“Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps.”

— Claire B. May Gordon S. May

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

— Nikki Giovanni

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”

— J.G. Ballard