Writing Quotes · Page 218

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

— Ryan North

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

— Kathy Reichs

“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?”

— Christian Wiman

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

— Adam Rapp

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

— Patrick Marber

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

— Elden Henson

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong…

— Danny Carey

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm…

— Janet Fitch

“Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.”

— Imaj

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

— John Hegley

“When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them?…

— Neil Gaiman

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

— Jim Goldberg

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20…

— Max Lucado

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of…

— Dave Barry

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to…

— Ronald Frame

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and…

— John Mortimer

I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody…

— Chelsea Martin

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's…

— Joan Baez

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I…

— Cameron Crowe

I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take…

— David Sedaris

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But…

— Sarah Jio

It's my mouth I say what I want too, and it's my wall I can write anything I feel like to write

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

— David Nicholls

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).”

— Georges St-Pierre

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

— Travis Beacham

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

— Aldous Huxley

“Heavy as such things are After the wordslide, the writing begins." From "Word Quake”

— Eileen Granfors

Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.

— Amanda Warren

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

— David Malouf

“I’ve never written for kids… I’m just trying to tap into the kid in myself & just go with my taste.”

— Andrew Stanton

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg