Writing Quotes · Page 457

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

— Diablo Cody

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

— Yance Ford

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

I love to grab my thoughts and write it down before I loose it !!

— Glen Rambharack

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far

— Claude C. Hopkins

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

— Barry Gibb

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed…

— Kenny Loggins

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so…

— Daniel Alarcon

When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And…

— David Suchet

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract…

— Gilles Deleuze

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing,…

— Steve Erickson

Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all…

— Richard Henry Lee

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

— Theresa May

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to…

— Frank Ocean

All we ever want is a story, that's all you want. So, you give a fairly long speech to somebody to tell…

— Brenda Fricker

I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise…

— Chris Carter

So, you’re hitting on Clare the Fair.” “I’m not hitting on her. I’m exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms.”…

— Nora Roberts

“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your…

— Welwyn Wilton Katz

I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give…

— Kevin Sampsell

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I…

— Graham Colton

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a…

— Seamus Heaney

I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds…

— George Saunders

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.

— Sam Fender

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

“Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.”

— Chrys Fey

“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”

— Michael P. Naughton

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

— Lights

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

— Analeigh Tipton

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

— Marianne Faithfull

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

— Bryce Dessner

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

— Rudy Rucker

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

— Truman Capote

“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.”

— Ray Bradbury