Writing Quotes · Page 490

I love writing super sad songs, and I love writing big pop songs.

— Griff

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

— Paulo Coelho

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

— Warren Buffett

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

— Joel Coen

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

— Anne Enright

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

— Christine Leunens

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer…

— Georges Bizet

I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

— Ace Frehley

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that…

— John Stockton

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

— Tommy Mottola

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with…

— Calvin Niles

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll…

— Corbin Bleu

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to…

— Rokia Traore

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

I just didn't really know who I was, so I didn't really know what I sounded like. And so I did a…

— Maggie Rogers

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those…

— Kate DiCamillo

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay…

— Edmund White

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year…

— Toby Keith

When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in…

— Rabih Alameddine

The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not…

— John Wesley

I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you…

— Steven Rinella

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

“Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.”

— Chriscinthia Blount

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

— Donald Barthelme

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

— Olivier Megaton

“I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

— Lou Barlow

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

— Patton Oswalt

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

— James Mercer

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris