Writing Quotes · Page 537

I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can't get away…

— Saara Aalto

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

— Jonathan Stroud

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

— Iain Sinclair

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

— Frank Miller

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

— Liev Schreiber

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices…

— Natalie Dormer

“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.”

— David Chuka

“The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change,…

— R. Alan Woods

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“Grading doesn’t make my students better writers. Lots of practice coupled with meaningful feedback makes my students better writers.”

— Kelly Gallagher

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty…

— Greg Lake

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness…

— Chinua Achebe

If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications.

— Torrey Peters

... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories…

— Walter Mosley

By the time of Andi Parhamovich death, I had already grown skeptical of the Iraq war. What her death made me realize…

— Michael Hastings

I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To…

— Enid Bagnold

“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something…

— Virginia Woolf

“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,…

— Pierre Boulle

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of…

— Micheal Mac Liammoir

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys…

— Antonia Fraser

I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart.

— Jeremy Limn

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

“(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.”

— Jincy Willett

What is written is more influential than what is said.

— James Cook

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

— Curt Smith

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

— Taylor Sheridan

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

— Cyril Connolly

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

“Let all our words(written or spoken) be for the glory of God and the good of his children.”

— Irene McCullum-Hines

“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”

— Miles Tager

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

— Daniel Keys Moran