Writing Quotes · Page 264

“Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.”

— Dana Stabenow

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

— Bill Withers

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

— James Salter

How do people write an auto biography? I can barley remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

— Anonymous

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

— Sophie Dahl

“Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.”

— Lana Axe

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

— Ruston Kelly

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

— J. M. Coetzee

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours,…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough…

— Whitfield Diffie

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou…

— Anonymous

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it…

— Adam Carolla

“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping…

— Monika Pardon

In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to…

— Elizabeth Wordsworth

To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown…

— Alfred Smee

“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

It's coming home for me as a writer, which means that, with my friends, I'd have to be able to write through…

— Torrey Peters

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of…

— Edwin Muir

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I…

— Fran Lebowitz

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,…

— Bertrand Russell

If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get…

— Annette Bening

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

— Colman Domingo

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

— Atom Egoyan

I've written a lot of songs from watching women speak about women empowerment.

— Anne-Marie

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

It's hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.

— Stephen McCauley

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

— Walter Kirn

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

— Tony DiCicco

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing…

— William Sleator

The only people who truly know your story, are the ones who help you write it.

— Anonymous

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

— Victor Levin

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel.”

— Carl Henegan

“It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.”

— David Carr