Writing Quotes · Page 256

“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.”

— Joan Silber

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

— Taylor Swift

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

— Laura Goode

“If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.”

— William Muller

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

— Anonymous

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching…

— Julia Alvarez

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the…

— David Sedaris

“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself,…

— Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This…

— Charlie Kaufman

I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and…

— Lulu Wang

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else.…

— Paul Brown

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental…

— Leslie Bricusse

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

— Terry Goodkind

I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when…

— Joshua Radin

A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write…

— Nina Gordon

“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I…

— Lisa Schroeder

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're…

— Paula Fox

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't…

— George Harrison

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The…

— Tom Miller

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

— Andy Biersack

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

— Mike O'Brien

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

— Zadie Smith

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

— Anonymous

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

— Matt Haig

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

— Travis Morrison

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.”

— Alastair Fowler

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France