Writing Quotes · Page 2,530

'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting…

— Billie Eilish

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…

— Megan Abbott

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

— Min Jin Lee

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

— Benny Anderson

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music…

— Anthony Hopkins

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all…

— Sara Sheridan

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing…

— Richard Stallman

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

— Jane Fallon

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the…

— Kevin Gates

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the…

— Kola Boof

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

— Mason Cooley

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

— Alan Alda

“When you are a writer, "Just be yourself" takes on a whole different, confusing meaning.”

— Jennivie Wirries

I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived…

— Sylvia Plath

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing…

— Amanda Abbington

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and…

— Bhumi Pednekar

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I…

— Joan Didion

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

— John Connolly

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis