Writing Quotes · Page 241

“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

— Jeff Bridges

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“I write because she exists - the epitome of elegance in every breath she takes.”

— Ammiel Josiah Osia Monterde

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

— John David Washington

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

— William Lashner

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

— Bibi Bourelly

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

— Libba Bray

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on…

— Christina Perri

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state…

— Shereen El Feki

I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives…

— Charles Ghigna

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.…

— Carmen Boullosa

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC…

— Eric Allin Cornell

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a…

— Ravi Shankar

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of…

— Harold Pinter

“Where do your stories come from?" He asked. "I capture them in a wicker basket as they flutter from the night sky,"…

— Chad B Hanson

Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you…

— Ronald D. Moore

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that…

— Robin Wasserman

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain…

— E. Hoffman Price

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going…

— John Darnielle

I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am…

— Roxane Gay

In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith…

— Martin Luther

“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.”

— Charles Baxter

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

— Anatole France

Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.

— Norman Davies

I am the author of my life. Unfortunatley, I'm writing in pen. And I cannot erase any mistakes.

— DopeyDasha

I want to get better at freestyling, to be writing better songs.

— Denzel Curry

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

— Roman Coppola

“Create worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.”

— Marcia Carrington

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

— Theresa Breslin

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

— Paul Stanley

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

— Bryan Greenberg

“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

— Susie Orbach

“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

— Anne Roiphe