Writing Quotes · Page 509

It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.

— Eliot Sumner

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

— Leigh Whannell

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure”

— Chris Stocking

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

— Gene Fowler

“Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.”

— Alexandra Johnson

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history…

— George W. Bush

“With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.”

— James A. Michener

Philosophical enlightenment, musical composition, writing and scientific observation keep me sane. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett

Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative…

— Heather Brooke

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me…

— Gretchen Rubin

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks…

— Loren Eiseley

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.…

— Walter Mosley

You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide…

— Martin Amis

Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I…

— Vinny Guadagnino

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately…

— Hozier

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not…

— Anne Lamott

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began…

— Elie Wiesel

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing…

— Neel Mukherjee

My debut album is like a collection of work over the past nine or ten years that I've been writing since I…

— Becky Hill

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

Imagine you're the words than write yourself. You're the pen, your heart is what you write.

— Jeremy Limn

“She's living That life, with the view, she designed.”

— Bri Miller

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

— Sara Bareilles

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

— Steve Schirripa

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

— Lou Gramm

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

— Jose Saramago

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

— Anne Reid

“Don't write about ideas ... write about convictions of the heart.”

— Leonard Cohen

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

— Jean Anouilh

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

— Matt Nix

“The written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds”

— Wes Moore - Bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore