Writing Quotes · Page 575

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

— Cheryl Strayed

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

— Philip Anschutz

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”

— Grant Morrison

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

— Alice Walker

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.”

— Susan Larson

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as…

— Stan Lee

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I…

— Rachel Kushner

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism…

— Edward Hirsch

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories…

— J. Cole

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece…

— Amy Matayo

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.…

— Rod Serling

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working…

— Ted Hughes

“In addition to reading and writing, we were expected to learn our history songs and ballads, although most of them had been…

— D. Maria Trimble

I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a…

— Dan Harmon

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out…

— John Cheever

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate…

— David Starkey

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

— John Irving

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn

“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”

— Roxane Gay

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

Im singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

— Cheryl Hayashi

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

— Michael Ondaatje

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

— Matt Groening

No matter where I go, I never write the setlist until I'm at the venue.

— Beth Hart

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

— Uzo Aduba

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”

— A.A. Patawaran