Writing Quotes · Page 524

I only want to write a song with the people who want to write a song with me.

— LP

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

— Dorothy Day

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

“The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.”

— Beverly Lowry

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

— Cynthia Ozick

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

— Yannis Philippakis

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

— Andrea Arnold

“When writing, aspire to sell your words by weight, not by volume.”

— Al Boudreau

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere…

— Gene Hackman

“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's…

— Dean Koontz

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is…

— Maurice Sendak

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some…

— Doris Grumbach

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good…

— Andrew Ripp

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your…

— Leon Nacson

“writers all had drinking problems in the twentieth century, and once she got the $1,080 check, she was obviously a writer and…

— Eve Babitz

I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's…

— Sigrid

When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only…

— Annie Ernaux

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,…

— Anonymous

This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again…

— Jennifer Lynch

I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

— Jeremy Clarkson

“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”

— John Geddes

“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.”

— P.D. James

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Ed Byrne

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

— Toni Morrison

Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me

— Tupac Shakur

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

— Henry Rollins

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

— Joanna Newsom

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

— Agatha Christie

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

— Sholom Aleichem

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

— Tom Scharpling

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

— Eric Bogosian

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

— Chris Priestley

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

— Mike McCready