Writing Quotes · Page 404

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.

— Robert Christgau

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

— Harlan Howard

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

“Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

— Wyclef Jean

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

— Kevin Smith

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished.…

— Lucy Christopher

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

— John Scalzi

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

— Joseph Brodsky

There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart. It's…

— Aino Jawo

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for…

— Peter McWilliams

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate…

— Anne Rice

I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel,…

— F. Paul Wilson

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil.…

— Keith Steinbaum

“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a…

— Anne Lamott

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be…

— Julian Casablancas

I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family.…

— Barbara Corcoran

Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that…

— Lee Smith

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and…

— Bill Gates

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I write a lot of shows with outcasts in the lead. Think of Elphaba.

— Stephen Schwartz

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

— Aaron Sorkin

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

— Josh Turner

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

— Stephen King

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond

“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

— Voltaire

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

— Helen Hodgman

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

— Graham Greene

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury