Writing Quotes · Page 192

When you write a song, a song has longevity

— Smokey Robinson

I would love to write and direct.

— Sydney Sweeney

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

What can be said, should never be written

— Adolf Hitler

“Write from the heart, edit from the head,”

— Stuart Aken

Let love write on you for awhile.

— Anonymous

Every actor just wants good writing.

— Jeff Daniels

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

— Lucas Cruikshank

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

— Jon Foreman

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm writing a book on anger management. ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO BUY IT OR ELSE!

— Nikhil Saluja

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

— Elmore Leonard

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

— Ted Shackelford

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

— Brendon Urie

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so…

— Jimi Hendrix

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might…

— Haruki Murakami

“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like…

— Matthew Norman

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

“On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling…

— William Safire

Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with…

— Lindsey Buckingham

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little…

— Hudson Stuck

If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to…

— MNEK

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling…

— Elif Batuman

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I…

— Alan Lightman

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to…

— Eliza Doolittle

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just…

— Zak Orth

As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers…

— Danielle Dutton

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the…

— Miranda Hart

[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters.…

— Erica Jong

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of…

— Queen Victoria

I write to find out about how the world sings.

— Jeanine Tesori

“Whatever one writes, comes to pass.”

— Oscar Wilde

The written word is everything.

— John Drinkwater

“He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame.”

— E.B. White

“All stories are love stories.”

— Robert McLiam Wilson

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

— Raymond Carver

“Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.”

— Nick Hornby

I became a melodic writer after 'Gunn.'

— Henry Mancini