Writing Quotes · Page 501

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

— Neil Gaiman

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

— Umberto Eco

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

— Max Landis

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

— Howard Hawks

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing…

— Suman Pokhrel

“[Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and…

— Jessica Lave

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

— Keith Gessen

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a…

— Gillian Flynn

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the…

— Bill Walsh

I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with…

— Laufey

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth…

— Jay Lake

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories…

— Italo Calvino

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to…

— Tracy Letts

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records…

— Philip Hensher

I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he…

— Susan Sarandon

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were…

— Benmont Tench

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

— Five for Fighting

I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

— Verite

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

— Anonymous

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

— Chord Overstreet

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I've been writing songs on my own since I was 13, and the same is true of Derek.

— Susan Tedeschi

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

— Katharine Hepburn

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

— Charles Willeford

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

Started writing poetry the other day. POETR, it's coming along nicely.

— Anonymous