Writing Quotes · Page 90

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

— Anna Quindlen

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

— Jean M. Auel

I play the piano and write music.

— Anwar Robinson

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

— Uzodinma Iweala

There are many talented writers in Mollywood.

— Atul Kulkarni

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

Everything I write is about me.

— Mika

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

— Seungri

“I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.”

— Karris Callahan

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as…

— Mark Strand

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a…

— Robert Frost

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang…

— Jerry Garcia

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel…

— Vantile Whitfield

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning…

— George R. R. Martin

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use…

— Richard Dunphy

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you…

— William Arthur Ward

“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you…

— Barack Obama

Etta James takes credit for writing some of the lyrics on 'I'd Rather Go Blind,' which I think are some of the…

— Beth Hart

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.…

— Raymond Chandler

When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if…

— Bill Walsh

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of…

— John Hodgman

I write a diary every day.

— Bojan Krkic

“I squint to decipher his scratchy boy writing.”

— Michelle Krys

“Write the story. Don't write sentences.”

— James Patterson

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

It's so difficult writing about living people.

— James D. Watson

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

I write a lot of sad songs!

— Lauv

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

— Sean Lock