Writing Quotes · Page 528

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

— Dan Kennedy

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

— Garry Hynes

I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

— Ehud Barak

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

— Gord Downie

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's…

— George W Truett

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

— M.I.A

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to…

— Dolly Parton

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

— Alan Alda

W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire…

— Dorianne Laux

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but…

— Diane Wakoski

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his…

— Chinua Achebe

If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can…

— Laurel Nakadate

“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the…

— Jane Austen

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in…

— James W. Pennebaker

All the things that served me as a musician serve me as a cook. Being an artist is about communicating something deep…

— Andi Oliver

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy…

— Chrissie Hynde

“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now…

— Michael Che

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

— W. G. Sebald

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

— Jim Rash

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'

— Henry Mancini

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

— Padma Lakshmi

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

— Julian Barnes

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

— David Hume

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

— Gary Oldman

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

— Terry Tempest Williams

As an actress I am always interested in the new writers.

— Donna McKechnie

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

— Edward Gorey

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

— Mel Brooks

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

— Delia Ephron