Writing Quotes · Page 377

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

— Barry Mann

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

— Jacques Derrida

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

— Gene Fowler

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

— Howard Nemerov

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting…

— Megan McKenna

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to…

— Avi

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

— W. H. Auden

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

— Charles XII of Sweden

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain…

— Hans Arp

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be…

— Max Reger

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts.…

— Ruskin Bond

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I…

— Athol Fugard

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm…

— Jonathan Lethem

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than…

— Susan Sontag

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm…

— Noel Clarke

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music…

— Randy Houser

“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of…

— George Orwell

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you…

— Michael Nyman

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

— James Mercer

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

— Ted Hughes

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

— Dave Barry

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

— Aharon Appelfeld

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

— Anita Brookner

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

— Warren Cuccurullo

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

— Sophy Burnham

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

— Teddy Geiger

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

— Tucker Max