Writing Quotes · Page 360

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

— Amos Oz

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

— John Braine

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

— Charli XCX

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”

— Dani Harper

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

— Anne Lamott

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

— Steve Martin

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.

— Anthony Jeselnik

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped…

— Nadine Gordimer

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness…

— Alain de Botton

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would…

— Gwen Stefani

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get…

— Sevyn Streeter

Aquarius have a hard time expressing themselves and talking about their problems. But they can through writing, drawing, or music.

— Anonymous

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

— Harrison Ford

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

— Charlie Kaufman

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped…

— Tavi Gevinson

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.…

— Albert Brooks

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“When you have strong chemistry with your own characters, and the ending is coming soon, it feels like a beautiful farewell. You…

— Alvi Syahrin

“For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up…

— Hilary McKay

“This story is always yours for the telling. This has always been yours. You can expand to fill it all or take…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what…

— Karl Kristian Flores

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

— Dennis Farina

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

— Diablo Cody

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

— James Norman Hall

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

— Stephen Fry

I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.

— Robbie Williams

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

— Simone Elkeles

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

— Ezra Pound

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

— Christopher Moore

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

— Steve Harris

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

— Michael Giacchino

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

— Theodor Adorno

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

— Graham Swift

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

— Nick Hornby