Writing Quotes · Page 456

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

— Eden Robinson

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

— Frank Zappa

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

— Bobby McFerrin

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

— Sky Ferreira

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an…

— Alice Ripley

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart)…

— Nellie Melba

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till…

— John Donne

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

— Kris Allen

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man…

— Laurence Housman

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I…

— Ma Jian

Im not Shakespeare to write about U, I Am Not Shelley To Sing About U, I Am Not Piccasso To Paint u,…

— Kaceem Madridista

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to…

— Miriam Makeba

“As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap.…

— David Brin

We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I can write a song and a thousand people could hear it and there will be countless different reasons why those people…

— Chuck Ragan

“Step back and scrutinize your work, to delve deep into the meaning behind the words, it will get both easier in some…

— Darynda Jones

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend…

— William Gibson

“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet…

— Preeti Shenoy

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…

— John Taylor Gatto

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

— Andrew Bird

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

— John Carpenter

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

— Lori Foster

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

— Ralph Fletcher

“I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

— Jaron Lanier

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nobody elected me, nobody voted for me. They don't want me writing policy, and I don't intend to.

— Karen Pence

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

— Peter Davison

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

— Laeta Kalogridis

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

— Shirley Knight

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn