Writing Quotes · Page 409

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.

— Cuco

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

The one thing we pride ourselves on the most with writing 'Car Share' is that it's hard to predict what's going to…

— Peter Kay

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me…

— Joe Pantoliano

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is…

— Andrew Shaffer

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does…

— Torrey Peters

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just…

— Sondre Lerche

It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own…

— Leigh Bardugo

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over…

— Corey Taylor

My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I…

— Vera Nazarian

“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A…

— Cressida Cowell

I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in…

— Stan Lee

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,…

— Nicola Griffith

Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of…

— Randall Jarrell

Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and…

— Hope Edelman

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your…

— Patrick Modiano

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

“Your intuition already knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

— Dolly Parton

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

— Joss Whedon

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

— Andrea Barrett

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

— Trey Anastasio

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

— Dolly Parton

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

— Marc Cherry