Writing Quotes · Page 578

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

“A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

— Peg Bracken

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

— Nizar Qabbani

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

— T. J. Thyne

For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have…

— Amanda Seales

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of…

— David Icke

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

— Mary Matalin

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul…

— Alok Mishra

A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working…

— Kim Petras

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it,…

— James Taylor

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it…

— David Karp

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want…

— Betty Smith

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece…

— CK Webb

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are…

— Ernest Lehman

women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.…

— Julia Glass

“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever,…

— William Faulkner

Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song…

— RaeLynn

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

— Robert Bly

“I am proof positive that wolves write doggie-style...”

— Arnold Wolf

Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.

— Zoya Akhtar

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— Anonymous

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

— Sloan Wilson

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three…

— Pandora Poikilos

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

— Chelsea Cain

“Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.”

— Vijay Kedia

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

— Walter Martin

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

— Terrence McNally

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

— Julia Glass

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

— Nina Simone

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

— William Goldman