Writing Quotes · Page 358

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

— Lou Gramm

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

— Jose Saramago

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

— Sara Bareilles

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

— Steve Schirripa

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in…

— Catie Curtis

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free…

— Rickey Medlocke

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing…

— Mike Birbiglia

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will…

— Loren Gray

“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll…

— Kia Carrington-Russell

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on…

— James Thayer

“Chalmers, like many of the English writers whom he then most admired, felt a strong natural sympathy with everything French. At Rouen…

— Christopher Isherwood

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to…

— Alistair Cross

It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them…

— Ray Bradbury

I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was…

— Cassandra Clare

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to…

— Victoria Wood

Imagine you're the words than write yourself. You're the pen, your heart is what you write.

— Jeremy Limn

“She's living That life, with the view, she designed.”

— Bri Miller

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

— Gene Fowler

“Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.”

— Alexandra Johnson

“Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure”

— Chris Stocking

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

— Jane Haddam

“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists”

— Scott Adams

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

— Augusten Burroughs

“My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered.”

— Jason E. Hodges

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

— Marian Keyes

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

— Jonathan Evison

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

“The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.”

— William S. Burroughs