Writing Quotes · Page 1,177

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

— Dean Koontz

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording…

— Tom Scholz

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

— Orson Scott Card

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

— James Roday

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

— Leo Rosten

“I came up with a new reason To write your name today I plagiarized each letter From a love note you wrote…

— Justin Wetch

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and…

— Bryan Cranston

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though…

— Eusebius

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is…

— Tilly Bagshawe

There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level…

— Johan Hegg

“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,…

— Sheila Hageman

I think that Chad Gray is one of the most honest, emotional, real vocalists there is; he really takes a lot of…

— Vinnie Paul

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes…

— Jane Siberry

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in…

— Plato

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at…

— Emily Dickinson

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside…

— K.M. Weiland

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various…

— Jane Smiley

I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my…

— Gen Urobuchi

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,…

— Salman Rushdie

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea…

— Anthony Lane

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need…

— Sxip Shirey

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have…

— Victoria Chang

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's…

— Anne Lamott

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

— Laura Nyro

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

— Tea Obreht

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being…

— Denny Laine

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

— Anne Tyler

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the…

— Vita Sackville-West

Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing.

— Steven Rinella

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to…

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great…

— Honoré de Balzac

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was…

— Chino Moreno

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it…

— Meg Rosoff

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director…

— Pratik Gandhi

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and…

— Bob Odenkirk