Writing Quotes · Page 557

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

— Billy Strayhorn

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

— Sally Quinn

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

— Mo Yan

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

— Anonymous

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.”

— Carlos Salinas

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

— Delta Goodrem

“XXIII Memento Mori The Book is Writ So lift the cover! Run the race And be a lover. In hope, & love…

— Michael Bee

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to…

— Lena Dunham

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to…

— Mike Myers

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

— Jennifer Weiner

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

— Walter Kaufmann

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at…

— Larry Winget

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology…

— Lara Pulver

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will…

— James Laughlin

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you…

— Adrienne Rich

You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures…

— Lynne Tillman

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written…

— Ayn Rand

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint…

— Ayelet Waldman

'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was…

— Brendon Urie

“I provoke thought, because that is what needs provoking. Humanity seems to hate thinking more than any other activity, and yet that…

— Robert Peate

I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind…

— Constantin Stanislavski

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

— Vincent Starrett

The idea - or, if you like, the need - to write and record 'Lash Out' was born of a feeling within…

— Alice Merton

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

— Bobby Bones

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

— Masiela Lusha

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

— Danny Strong

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

— Peter Jennings

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

— Virginia Woolf

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

— Illeana Douglas

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

— William Shakespeare

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

— Ian Dury

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

— Adam Rapp

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand.

— @efiosiugbore