Writing Quotes · Page 124

Writing is still on my slate.

— Jaleel White

The balls do not make a writer.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

— George Gershwin

“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

— Aaron Bruno

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

— David Sedaris

“What is written in my destiny, it will happen anyway.”

— Raz Mihal

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

— Niki de St. Phalle

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

— Horace Greeley

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has…

— Lisa Scottoline

I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the…

— Kellin Quinn

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

— Shirley Manson

“In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong.”

— Eric T. Benoit

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in…

— Christopher Eccleston

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

— Quintilian

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…

— Jesse Eisenberg

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life,…

— India.Arie

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.…

— Bentley Little

Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I…

— Paul Simon

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why…

— Horton Foote

“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can…

— William Faulkner

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason…

— Mike Bartlett

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“I’ve used the common wooden pencil in some of my writing as an example. When I ask audiences which is “simpler”, a…

— Brad Cox

You must do what you say you do.

— Rudolfo Anaya Poet & Writer

Never write a letter while you are angry.

— Jimi Hendrix

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

— Samuel Rogers

I am a part of all I have read.

— Anonymous

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

— Lauren Alaina