Writing Quotes · Page 560

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

— Jason Mraz

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

— Wallace Stegner

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

— Anonymous

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

— Michael Brandt

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

— Jenna Bush

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,…

— Lynda Obst

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have…

— Nicholas Sparks

“The end of the third millennium saw the arrival in the east of Amorite ... who settled west of Euphrates ... and…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such…

— Graham Greene

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

— Joni Mitchell

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

— Elvis Costello

“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't…

— Anne Lamott

“If I can't be remembered as one of the greatest authors, why not be remembered as the sexiest writer...”

— Hans Lindor

“The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder.…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in…

— Gary Shteyngart

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction…

— Peter Sotos

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our…

— Christopher Hitchens

Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even…

— Elena Ferrante

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability,…

— Miguel Syjuco

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So…

— Virginia Woolf

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics…

— Bertolt Brecht

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

— Susan Fowler

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

— David Duchovny

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

— Janette Turner Hospital

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.

— Eunhyuk

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

— Rick Wakeman

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

— Ernest Hemingway

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

— John Frusciante

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

— John Hall Wheelock

“A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.”

— Aditi Dufare

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

— Nellie Bly

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

— John Updike

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

— Clive Cussler