Writing Quotes · Page 532

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

— Chris Martin

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

— Ingeborg Bachmann

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

— Sia

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

— Blaise Pascal

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

— John Hope

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

— James Salter

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

— Steven Pressfield

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club…

— Adrian Belew

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

— Jim Rash

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

— William Shakespeare

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and…

— Walt Whitman

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

— Jami Attenberg

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as…

— Joseph Addison

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let…

— Terence Winter

They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down…

— Anne Lamott

“If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing…

— Amélie Nothomb

I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a…

— Bjork

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible…

— Sandra Cisneros

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or…

— Barbara Kruger

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a…

— Miranda Lambert

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it…

— Aldous Harding

“Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.”

— Ana Patrick

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

— David Guterson

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

— John Yau

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

— Nicola Roberts

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

— Darren Criss

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

— Leonard Cohen

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

— Grace Paley

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

— Beverly Cleary

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

— William Zinsser

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“Because writing gave meaning to my life. In case you haven’t noticed, life generally”

— Joël Dicker

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

— Ken Hill

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth