Writing Quotes · Page 216

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

— Kristin Hersh

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

— Ravi Subramanian

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

— Ashwin Sanghi

It's good to talk...its better if you have it in writing.

— Robert D Dangoor

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

— Tom Robbins

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

— Reinhold Messner

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and…

— Dierks Bentley

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and…

— Eudora Welty

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much…

— Susie Bright

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm…

— Joan Didion

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is…

— Ismail Kadaré

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your…

— Jim Capaldi

“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere,…

— Nema Al-Araby

“In a sentiment that Anne Lamott memorably made, urging that perfectionism is the great enemy of creativity, and Neil Gaiman subsequently echoed…

— Anonymous

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies.…

— Alan Ball

When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By…

— Robin Thicke

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience…

— Karen Marie Moning

“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own…

— John Naber

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier.…

— Christopher Cross

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying…

— Damian Barr

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

— Kris Allen

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

— Cyril Connolly

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

— William Safire

If there's a book that you want to read,but hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

— Dean Koontz

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

— Mohanlal

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

— Reeve Carney

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

“Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.”

— robert m drake

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

— Sharon Olds

I think - I hope - I became a better writer as I've worked.

— Leigh Bardugo

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

“He is a sea, a cliffside rooting. Writing a wound creating a cliffside in your heart. a love.”

— Gwen Calvo

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

— Bill Pullman