Writing Quotes · Page 442

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

“Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.”

— T.L. Crain

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

— Brett Favre

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

— Stephen King

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is…

— Paul Johnson

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

— Ralph Keyes

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling…

— Diane Setterfield

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a…

— Chris Stocking

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is…

— Christine and the Queens

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will…

— Paul Fussell

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life…

— Anna Quindlen

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.…

— Gaston Bachelard

When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I…

— Matt Taibbi

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All…

— Min Jin Lee

You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional…

— Corey Stoll

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a…

— Sydney J. Harris

“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold…

— Lyn Gardner

“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls…

— Brenda Ueland

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

— Edmund Waller

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

— Isaac Asimov

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

— Philipp Meyer

I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better.

— Ti West

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

— Ron Carlson

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

— Zadie Smith

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

— Jihae

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

— Karen Russell

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

— Haruki Murakami