Writing Quotes · Page 68

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the…

— Brian Wilson

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature…

— George Washington

I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't…

— Sheila Heti

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip…

— Ernest Hemingway

If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I…

— Ellie Goulding

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

— Leopold Fechtner

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world…

— Edward Bond

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

— Rick Wakeman

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for…

— Eddie Van Halen

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is…

— Jason Statham

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go…

— Harvey Pekar

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he…

— Charles Bukowski

There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being…

— Steven Knight

All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call…

— Storm Jameson

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this…

— Sayed Kashua

I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying…

— Randy Rainbow

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy

“Writing and art are my lovers”

— Edna Stewart

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's…

— Robert Cormier

If I'm writing a song for Karen Harding, I know I can't impose what I want to say onto her. I literally…

— MNEK

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few…

— Hank Williams III

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what…

— Donna Goddard

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong…

— Soman Chainani

“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

— Ray Bradbury

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

— Gene Fowler

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing…

— Harlan Coben

I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem,…

— Roger Ross Williams

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study…

— Yaa Gyasi

“Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you’ve fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it…

— Shaun Hick

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James