Writing Quotes · Page 57

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

I love writing family stories.

— Larry Wilmore

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

— Bruce Coville

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

— Henry Rollins

“Writing fiction for money is a mug's game.”

— Stephen King

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

— Barbara Holland

“The best part of writing is sharing it.”

— Kerry Langan

“This bitch was giving me writer’s block.” -Kade”

— Christine Zolendz

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

— Ed Westwick

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

— V. S. Naipaul

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

— Christina Baldwin

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

“Writing is a love & hate relationship. You'll love the job, you'll hate the work.”

— Anonymous

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it…

— Virginia Woolf

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same…

— Gautama Buddha

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and…

— Shuggie Otis

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

— Paul Rudnick

It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some…

— Adrian Pasdar

Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I…

— Suzanne Steele

“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.”

— Natasha Pulley

Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting -…

— John Derbyshire

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched…

— Neil Gaiman

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to…

— Hal David

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to…

— McKenzie Wark

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.…

— Glenn Ligon

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of…

— Victor Hugo

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the…

— Denis O'Hare

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

— Jonathan Carroll

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

— Henry Fielding

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

— Lewis Black

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

— Ida B. Wells

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

— Sasha Velour

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman