Writing Quotes · Page 22

I've been lucky to have a good reputation with writers. My strongest suit is that of an interpreter, so it's important for…

— Johnny Paycheck

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort…

— William Monahan

“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious.…

— Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for…

— Philip Glass

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never…

— Bob Dylan

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the…

— Etgar Keret

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As…

— Hooman Majd

I don't really write songs anymore.

— Justin Vernon

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have…

— Taylor Dayne

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said…

— George Eliot

“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so…

— Amélie Nothomb

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

— William Gurstelle

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

— Zola Jesus

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

— Virginia Woolf

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words…

— Stephen King

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very…

— Rose Tremain

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

— J. J. Abrams

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part…

— Tim Cope

I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I…

— David Cronenberg

Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they…

— Cheryl Strayed

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small…

— Cheryl Strayed

Style is important, but content comes first.

— James J. Kilpatrick

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik