Writing Quotes · Page 1,603

“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things,…

— Plutarch

When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're…

— Butch Walker

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do…

— Nora Roberts

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies…

— Joel Stein

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I…

— Neil Diamond

I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it.…

— Norman Mailer

When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass…

— Zach Galifianakis

I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so…

— How to Dress Well

We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in…

— Krishna Das

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from…

— Anita Loos

“That yes you commit to as reader and writer is the current that hums through all the work. Of course, you might…

— Natalie Goldberg

When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a…

— Zoe Foster Blake

But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS…

— George Michael

“A good writer is likely to know and use, or find out and use, the words for common architectural features, like "lintel,"…

— John Gardner

You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want…

— Anne Bernays

[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at…

— Rob Lowe

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better,…

— Douglas Engelbart

I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to…

— Stan Lee

“When using the Pomodoro Technique, you: 1. Choose a task (e.g., writing). 2. Set a timer for twenty-five minutes. 3. Work for…

— S.J. Scott

If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer.…

— Junot Diaz

In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say…

— Howard Gardner

I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's…

— Michael Connelly

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised…

— David Hewson

It's true, there aren't many explicit references to Canada in my book. And not many explicit references to the U.S., either. I…

— James Arthur

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields…

— Paul Theroux

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of…

— Anne Fortier

“HSPs tend to fill that advisor role. We are the writers, historians, philosophers, judges, artists, researchers, theologians, therapists, teachers, parents, and plain…

— Elaine N. Aron

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…

— Diane Setterfield

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel…

— Jill Scott

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find…

— Sonia Rykiel

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most…

— Rachel Kushner

“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.…

— M.V. Carey

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every…

— Calvin Trillin

Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery…

— Joan Didion

Will you still want me if I'm poor, Kat?" "What kind of question is that?" "No. Seriously. You're the planner. Simon's the…

— Ally Carter

“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands…

— Christian A. Dumais