Writing Quotes · Page 287

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

— John Darnielle

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

— Melissa Etheridge

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

— Sandra Cisneros

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

“You write your best music when you’re dealing with something. Get it out, dude.”

— Bella Jeanisse

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

— Nazım Hikmet

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I…

— Kelsea Ballerini

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen…

— Ellen Goodman

“Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer…

— K. Lamb

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central…

— John Hersey

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do…

— Sharon Kay Penman

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the…

— Donna Karan

“I’m a writer.”It took a second to click. Then Blake chucked. “Not just any writer. She writes paranormal porn.”She turned, and snarled…

— Hazel Gower

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where…

— Tom Barbash

“I would have preferred not to have to choose between writing and loving; because for me, they were often the same thing.…

— Jessie Burton

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and…

— Anonymous

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.…

— Anne Lamott

“I’d been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out on the pages. And I…

— Anonymous

When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write…

— Sophie Kinsella

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music…

— Mitch Leigh

Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the…

— Kiera Cass

I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but…

— Michael K. Williams

“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do”

— Maureen Tuohy

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

— Paul Dano

“Writer’s block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.”

— Archana Kapoor Nagpal

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

— Michel Faber

A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself.

— Tassel Daley

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

— Dorothy Allison

“Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.”

— Paul West

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

— Richard Laymon

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote…

— Ozzy Osbourne

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

— M. Night Shyamalan