Writing Quotes · Page 417

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

— Red Smith

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.

— Arthur Bradford

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then…

— William H. Macy

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

— Frederic G. Kenyon

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed…

— Melanie Chisholm

Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you…

— George R. R. Martin

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling…

— Jhene Aiko

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety…

— Alain de Botton

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked…

— John Carpenter

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I…

— Aloe Blacc

I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I don't have much to say about honesty. All that I feel about it that people don't discuss as far as I…

— Marie Calloway

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just…

— Wayne Dyer

“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence,…

— Diane Setterfield

I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…

— Gene Wolfe

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and…

— Philip Glass

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my…

— Tom Lehrer

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

— Darren Criss

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

“Writing is like standing naked in the town square.”

— Rebecca Dartt

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

— Joss Whedon

“Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!”

— Alvi Syahrin

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

— Suzanne Collins

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

— Jose Saramago

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

— Keith Hernandez

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

— Sarah Jessica Parker