Writing Quotes · Page 499

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

— Neil Gaiman

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

— How to Dress Well

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

— Cassandra Clare

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

— Lisa See

If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period.

— Rebecca Serle

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

— Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the…

— Mark Strong

“I should charge my bank money every time I endorse the back of a check. What is the going rate these days…

— Jarod Kintz

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by…

— Robert J. Sawyer

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great…

— William Shakespeare

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least…

— Dana Spiotta

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

— Patti Smith

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less…

— George W. Bush

“Today, names of screenwriters like Zoe Akins, Jeanie Macpherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Lenore Coffee, Anita Loos, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth, Jane Murfin,…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have…

— Jorge Luis Borges

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close…

— Anonymous

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table…

— Veronika Carnaby

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended…

— Samuel Johnson

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

— Adam Silvera

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

“This is why I write: I believe the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary stories.”

— Lucy Ke

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

— Michael J. Fox

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to…

— Dave Haywood

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

— Bradley Sands

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

— Ben Hecht

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

— Henry Miller

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

— Sylvester Stallone

“Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written”

— Brooke Stonex

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

— Jerry Harrison

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

— Octavia E. Butler