Writing Quotes · Page 556

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

— Terry McMillan

Life is like a song. It written and then heard by the people your around.

— Anonymous

“You write about what you love and you write about things you’re trying to make sense of.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

— Fred Saberhagen

I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

— Shahrukh Khan

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

— Maxwell Perkins

“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.”

— Martin Amis

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

— Chris Carmack

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or…

— Michael Hersch

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

— Candice Millard

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container.…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry…

— Erica Jong

Not all the lyrics are topical - sometimes that is just the setting. They are all pretty much interpersonal. For some reason…

— Tim Presley

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window…

— Lucinda Williams

When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The…

— Martha Wainwright

“For a long time, I felt like I was destined to inherit a certain kind of life and so I wouldn’t let…

— Kenny Porpora

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it…

— Aristotle

To me living and music are all the same thing. And I keep finding out more about music as I learn more…

— McCoy Tyner

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

— Harry Styles

As a writer, my job is to think of evil ways to destroy the world and save it. What could be more…

— Lisa Yee

“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”

— Marcel Proust

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

— Walter Benjamin

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

— Anonymous

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

— Wilson Mizner

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

— Stephen King

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

— Fred Barnes

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

— Candace Bushnell

It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

— Steven Brust

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

— J. B. Priestley

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

— Michael Cunningham