Writing Quotes · Page 489

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

— Nicky Jam

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

— Robert Christgau

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

— Derek Sivers

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

— Brynn Cartelli

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a…

— Lisa Unger

All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself…

— J. G. Ballard

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible,…

— Marie Lu

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being…

— John Boyne

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's…

— Kate DiCamillo

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love…

— Marilynne Robinson

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant…

— Michelle Malkin

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing…

— Shelby Steele

Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it…

— Anna Quindlen

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people…

— Michelle Dean

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was…

— Katie Piper

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio

“Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.”

— robert m drake

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

— Martin Parr

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

— John Brown

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

— Don DeLillo

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

— Graham Nash

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

“The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.”

— Christy Hall