Writing Quotes · Page 1,569

When you're writing about a relationship, whether it's an interpersonal one or not, it's still about communication and trying to be understood…

— Michael Penn

I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly…

— Colin Hay

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking,…

— Anna Boden

“I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the…

— Lord Byron

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for…

— Lady Gaga

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in…

— Shane Smith

“It is held by many writers that the First Dynasty of Babylon was of Arab origin.”

— Leonard William King

“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.”

— Darynda Jones

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life…

— Jillian Medoff

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of…

— Gregory Maguire

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

— Woodrow Wilson

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file.…

— E. J. Dionne

A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that…

— Daniel Kaluuya

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in…

— John Steinbeck

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to…

— Gore Vidal

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go…

— John Trudell

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

— Uzodinma Iweala

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my…

— Italo Calvino

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love…

— Cassandra Clare

We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.

— David Bryan

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I…

— Joe Eszterhas

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

— Liza Campbell

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

— Oscar Wilde

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,…

— Maya Angelou

I didn't enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn't really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when…

— Tom Fletcher

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

— Sandra Cisneros

“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,…

— Fernando Pessoa

Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…

— Herbert Simon

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

— Pharrell Williams

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

— Pat Schneider

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…

— Stephen Spender

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

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

“I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves,…

— John Fante