Writing Quotes · Page 104

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

— Sonny Sandoval

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

— Amitava Kumar

“Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

If God tells me to write another book, then I will.

— Ainsley Earhardt

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

— Michael Finkel

Everybody writes a book too many.

— Anonymous

Each book starts from ashes.

— Philip Roth

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

— J. K. Rowling

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

“I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.”

— Anonymous

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

— Judd Apatow

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just…

— David Letterman

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years -…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them…

— Ricky Schroder

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to…

— Christina Perri

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having…

— Emma Tennant

“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can…

— Norma Fox Mazer

Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to…

— Storm Jameson

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a…

— Duane Michals

“k are you writing?’ ‘It’s a fictionalised account of the death of Archduke Ferdinand.’ ‘A historical novel then. How interesting. You understand…

— Tom Wood

The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is…

— Helen Foster Snow

The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which…

— Flannery O'Connor

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write…

— Isabel Allende

In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have…

— Shane Carruth

I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we…

— John Lennon

“I'm happy when I write. I've written my first novel, my pencil is down. My last work has been written. No turning…

— Missy Salick

I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet…

— Billy Collins

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Find the problem, find the story.”

— John Brown

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

— Dick Cavett

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

— C. J. Cherryh

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

“You cannot spell Poetry without try”

— Brandon Villasenor

...a good poem contains both meaning and music

— Eve Merriam

Part of my therapy is to write.

— LeAnn Rimes