Writing Quotes · Page 222

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

— Brett Dennen

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

“the end is already written, it’s just a matter of getting there.”

— Marie Hall

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

— Dan Brown

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

— Larry Kramer

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

— Margaret Atwood

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

— Lucrecia Martel

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing.…

— Jeff Buckley

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

“Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.”

— Ksenia Anske

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my…

— Ben Marcus

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write…

— Jake M. Johnson

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to…

— Quentin Tarantino

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,…

— Salman Rushdie

“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and…

— Roberto Bolaño

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being…

— Martin Amis

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it…

— Russell Smith

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest…

— George Bernard Shaw

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,…

— Robert Morgan

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

— Lytton Strachey

“There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.”

— John Morris Benson

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

— Rick Riordan

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to…

— Hisham Matar

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

— James Scott Bell

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

— Anne Lamott

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

— Jonathan Frakes

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

— Ernest Hemingway

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

— Kelsea Ballerini

“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

I like to write on anything that is intriguing, unheard of - something that is offbeat.

— Mukul Dev

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

— Dennis Potter

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

— Moliere