Writing Quotes · Page 219

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

— Sherman Alexie

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

— Stephen King

“I can’t and won’t write without hope. I’d rather never write again.”

— Melina Marchetta

“WARNING: Brain dribble from a writer could cause good literature for the reader.”

— Brick Marlin

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

— Rick Springfield

“If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.”

— Deray Ogden

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

— Anne Tyler

“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:…

— Paul J. Silvia

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

— Suzanne Vega

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the…

— Tom Waits

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my…

— Richard Ford

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new…

— Harry Partch

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write…

— Max Lucado

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

— Lyle Lovett

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea…

— Colson Whitehead

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape…

— Meia Geddes

"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors,…

— William Fichtner

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided…

— Goapele

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,…

— Jose Saramago

“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can…

— Philip Larkin

They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am…

— Anonymous

I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the…

— Todd Farmer

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

— Max Lucado

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

— Larry Wall

“I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.”

— Markus Zusak

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

— Howard Rheingold

I'm interested in the film world; I love being a storyteller.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.

— David Grann

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

— Jane Jacobs

I write to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance

— Anonymous

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

— Christopher Moore

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

— Tom Lehrer

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

— Noel Redding

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

— Tom Verlaine

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson