Writing Quotes · Page 393

I'm a writer through and through. I'll always write.

— Steven Rinella

“And so instead, when you write, I hope you fall in love.”

— R. YS Perez

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

— Teju Cole

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

“When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about.

— Obviously Me :p

“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.”

— Dennis Lehane

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not…

— Avicii

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut…

— Walter Kirn

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way…

— O. Henry

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to…

— Graham Greene

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going…

— Stevie Nicks

We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent…

— Walter Becker

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I…

— Meg Cabot

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

— James Cook

“Food should figure in the writing of Adivasi identity. In villages far off the road, all the food – meat, fish, kuccha,…

— Madhu Ramnath

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has…

— Jennifer Aniston

For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that…

— Hermann Hesse

Try keeping yourself busy. Whether that is reading, writing, creating, or watching a movie.. Keep your mind off of your worry and…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what…

— William Bernbach

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame…

— Jim Carrey

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without…

— Walter Mosley

I was always a wannabe 'singer-songwriter' but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my…

— Anupam Roy

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

— Roger Bacon

“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.”

— Kelvin Fowler

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

— Sean O Faolain

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

— Bjork

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

— Joseph J. Ellis

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

— J. A. Adande

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

— Mohit Chauhan

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

— Julianna Baggott

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

— Natalie Imbruglia

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

— Marc Maron