Writing Quotes · Page 221

There's nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that's just not what my purpose is.

— Bibi Bourelly

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

— Terry Goodkind

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

— Emily Barton

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I've never paid much attention to those who have written me off.

— Humza Yousaf

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

— Grace Potter

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

— Lewis Black

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it…

— Andy Grammer

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it…

— J. M. Coetzee

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I…

— Jake Holmes

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they…

— Jodi Picoult

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on…

— Marilyn Hacker

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in…

— Norman Lock

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so…

— Donald Fagen

“I can’t stop writing you. You, the pleasure which exiled me for awhile. You of the whom dream, the bell swinging with…

— Michael Burkard

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a…

— Chad Harbach

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad.…

— Gillian Flynn

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university…

— Rachel Cusk

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for…

— David Ives

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up…

— Jaboukie Young-White

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

— Paul Virilio

“Every life has a story and every story needs a writer.”

— Emily-Jane Hills Orford

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

— Henrik Ibsen

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

— John Cooper Clarke

I truly appreciate this blog.Thanks Again. Keep writing.

— Notebook Review

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

— Carol Shields

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

“You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.”

— Lang Leav

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

— Jesmyn Ward