Writing Quotes · Page 167

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

— Jarvis Cocker

“we only read when you write”

— Ian Hunter

“In a democracy government is the God.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

I am always trying to write.

— Joanna Newsom

The best style is the style you don't notice.

— Anonymous

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

— Maurizio Sarri

Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

— Roman Coppola

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

— Gerry Mulligan

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

— Kin Hubbard

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

— Giancarlo Esposito

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

— Daniel Alarcon

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal…

— Jonathan Carroll

I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,…

— Leon Russell

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

— Uma Thurman

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way…

— Susan Sontag

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

“Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the…

— Cecilia Bartholomew

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign…

— Mark Twain

“But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents.…

— Jean Paul Sartre

As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're…

— John Fogerty

I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention.…

— Raven Grimassi

What happened was I was a songwriter on Quincy Jones' publishing company, Qwest, for two and a half years before I gave…

— Siedah Garrett

Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it…

— CJ Fly

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At…

— Randy Newman

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen…

— Martin McDonagh

Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to…

— Jack Hodgins

Live it up so you can write it down.

— Ernest Hemingway

Little children are all writers.

— Alice Mattison

A good book is an event in my life.

— Stendhal

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Dialogue is a necessary evil.

— Fred Zinnemann

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson

“The best is a tale that has yet to be written.”

— Steven Owen Godersky