Writing Quotes · Page 359

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.

— Timothy B. Schmit

“This story was not written for people who do not know what I'm talking about.”

— Christopher Higgs

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

— Jonathan Demme

“Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.”

— Sara Sheridan

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

— Ester Dean

I am the same man writing the music. I haven't changed directions to suit anyone except me.

— John Waite

I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

— Ruskin Bond

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all…

— Louis Sachar

I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but…

— Phoebe Robinson

Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to…

— Jacques Barzun

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer.…

— Damian Barr

I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song,…

— Gabriella Wilson

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found…

— Gregory Maguire

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about…

— Natasha Trethewey

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,…

— Ann Hood

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at…

— George Albert Wells

LATE will always be the most important song to me. I used to struggle to perform it live without getting upset but…

— Roxanne Emery

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I…

— Colson Whitehead

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different…

— Andrea Riseborough

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she…

— Frederick Weisel

“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must…

— Dorothy Parker

“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.”

— robert m drake

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Write down three things you like about your adversaries.”

— Bryan Cohen

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

— Sloane Crosley

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

“it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.”

— Kate Morton

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“Before you can write, you have to be able to read.”

— D.M. Russ

“With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

— Jens Lekman

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

— Shania Twain