Writing Quotes · Page 523

If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.

— Naseem Hamed

“Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.”

— Kandi Steiner

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

— Etheridge Knight

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

— Nick Frost

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

— Richard Bach

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

— Maureen Dowd

“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not…

— Scott Norton

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about…

— Oscar Nunez

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your…

— Julia Leigh

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and…

— Barry Manilow

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously…

— Jorie Graham

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

— Buzz Aldrin

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially…

— Alan Zweibel

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on…

— Lynn Coady

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing,…

— Scottie Thompson

“Refusing to lean back against him, Colleen sat ramrod straight until they reached the road. “I guess I should say thank you…

— Shannon MacLeod

“May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses…

— Grant Morrison

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about…

— Steven Tyler

“The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most…

— Chris Godsen

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in…

— Teddy Wayne

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

— Gza

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

— Phil Rudd

“Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.”

— Amit Kalantri

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

— Peter Handke

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

— Stephen King

“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

— Megyn Price

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

— Joshua Mohr

“Descriptive writing is more than visual; it employs all the senses.”

— Cheryl St.John

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

— Pete Townshend

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

— Joan Armatrading

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

— Stanley Schmidt

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

— Noah Cyrus