Writing Quotes · Page 1,594

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the…

— Rumaan Alam

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And…

— Noah Hawley

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not…

— Todd Solondz

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target…

— Anna Todd

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome…

— Annie Proulx

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for…

— James L. Brooks

I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was…

— Jules Feiffer

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of…

— Carrie Fisher

When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing…

— Verite

“Christ Took Our Punishment 21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements…

— Anonymous

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person.…

— Lucy Dacus

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's…

— Halsey

“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe…

— Patricia Duncker

I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar…

— Nicole Atkins

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

— Brian Wilson

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all…

— Colm Meaney

I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that…

— Kola Boof

Writing is not my job.

— Upasana Singh

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

— Zane Grey

“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of…

— James N. Frey

Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in…

— Ron Currie Jr

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

“I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a…

— Wallace Stegner

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

— Italo Calvino

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road

— Tommy Shaw

I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in Covent Garden.

— David Essex

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of…

— Salman Rushdie

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

— Alexandra Daddario

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra

“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I…

— Ben Marcus

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's…

— Louise Penny

“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography…

— Jamelle Bouie

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to…

— Tim Winton