Writing Quotes · Page 391

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

— William Faulkner

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

— Roddy Doyle

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

— Brad Listi

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.

— Scottie Pippen

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

— Dan Auerbach

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

— Tim Cahill

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to…

— Lucy Dacus

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do…

— Travis Scott

“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history,…

— Sara Sheridan

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their…

— Perez Hilton

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

— Zakk Wylde

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems…

— Sylvia Plath

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

“Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there,…

— Markus Zusak

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one…

— Tea Obreht

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,…

— Tim Ferriss

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,…

— Bruce Springsteen

We have heard projects with some of the writers, who we've been in business with for a long time at the studio,…

— Gary Numan

“Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore…

— Jay Woodman

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for…

— John Updike

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

— John Irving

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

— Jason Reitman

“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”

— Robert McKee

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

— Larry Wall

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

— John Wieners

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

— Alice Mattison

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

— Bo Burnham

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

— Sarah Cooper

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

— Terry Bozzio

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

— Laura Kinsale