Writing Quotes · Page 224

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Writer can’t be writer twenty-four hours; and they have many avtars.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

“I work to eat, but I write to live. -Nakia R. Laushaul”

— Nakia R. Laushaul

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

— Jane Alison

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

— Zane Grey

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen…

— Thomas Aquinas

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,…

— Roscoe Mitchell

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better…

— Felipe Esparza

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving…

— Sandra Cisneros

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum…

— Slash

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day…

— Cormac McCarthy

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you…

— Cristian Mihai

“We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee,…

— Jon Ronson

I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd…

— Zachary Cole Smith

“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its…

— Fredric Jameson

I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see…

— Washed Out

“This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: ‘You know, the one…

— Noel Gallagher

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a…

— Colman Domingo

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get…

— Tom Clancy

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

— Katie Melua

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

— John Adams

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

— Dana Perino

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

— Michael Ian Black

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

— Julianna Baggott

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

— Mini Grey

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

— Woody Allen

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.”

— Mercedes Lackey

I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.

— Maria Bamford

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

— Robert Asprin

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

— Robin Hobb