Writing Quotes · Page 549

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

— Bart Millard

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

— Padgett Powell

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter

— Baltasar Gracian

I've noticed that when I write I tend to have slightly poppier melodies.

— Jen Ledger

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

— Sam Wyly

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

— Steven Pressfield

Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire…

— Bible

“Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna] "They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]”

— Cassandra Rose Clarke

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in…

— Haruki Murakami

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

— Ambrose Bierce

“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about…

— Richard Eyre

I take in a lot of different styles when I listen to music, but when I'm actually writing a song it comes…

— Guy Sebastian

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally…

— Walter J. Ong

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell…

— Matthew Quick

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,…

— Donna Tartt

Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first…

— Paolo Nutini

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really…

— William Styron

“If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he…

— Augustine of Hippo

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone…

— Jennifer Tipton

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.”

— Piper Payne

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

— Anonymous

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

— Rumi

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

— Andrea Riseborough

“A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

— John Prine

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

— Natasha Bedingfield

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

— Patti Smith