Writing Quotes · Page 247

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

— Chuck Berry

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

— William Faulkner

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.

— Ted Alexandro

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way…

— Liz Phair

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

— John Berridge

Marriagea book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so…

— Abhijit Naskar

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that…

— Barry Lane

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement.…

— Paul Muni

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of…

— Robert Hass

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's…

— Ethan Coen

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything…

— Bari Weiss

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I…

— Pierre Bayard

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as…

— Camille Paglia

Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all…

— Joell Ortiz

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can…

— Philipp Meyer

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it…

— Alan Moore

“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.”

— Benjamin Percy

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Writing by myself in my bedroom is definitely where I feel most creative.

— Amber Mark

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

— Haruki Murakami

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

— Derek Walcott

“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”

— Michael Knight

“I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.”

— Taylor Swift

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

— John Kluge

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

— Tommy Lee

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

— Mark Millar

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

— Mercedes Lackey

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

— William Hazlitt

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

— Maren Morris

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

— Brendan Fletcher

I'm writin music..I think aloud when I think off loud.

— Wale