Writing Quotes · Page 408

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day…

— Stephanie Michel

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

— Tori Amos

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

— Juliana Hatfield

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

— Tennessee Williams

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

— Gustav Mahler

The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The…

— Christoph Waltz

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with…

— Ed Kashi

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do.…

— Paulo Coelho

“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is…

— Helen Humphreys

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for…

— Smokey Robinson

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me…

— Behdad Sami

“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people…

— Stephen King

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

— John Dryden

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about…

— Vera Brittain

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh…

— Ingmar Bergman

I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the…

— Steve Almond

“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across…

— Carl Sagan

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book…

— Jane Smiley

Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at…

— Frank McCourt

There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and…

— Christine Jennings

“I was born a dribbler, became a reader, now I write.”

— Joseph Hagen

I started writing because I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

— Mike O'Malley

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

— Gerard Way

I mean I write poems in these songs, dedicated to the fun sex.

— Drake

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

“I'm still writing about you and you haven't read a word.”

— Travis Grant

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

— Tom Robbins

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

— John Cooper Clarke

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

— Bryan Adams

I love acting, I love directing, I love writing, I love producing, I love creating.

— Joivan Wade

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

— Colbie Caillat

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

“Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.”

— Beem Weeks

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

— Catherine Gaskin

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

— Dorothy Allison