Writing Quotes · Page 297

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

— Josh Turner

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

— Kevin Smith

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

— Aaron Sorkin

I write a lot of shows with outcasts in the lead. Think of Elphaba.

— Stephen Schwartz

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I become a very different person when Im writing music. I have zero anxiety when Im doing it.

— Renee Rapp

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

“stories can be hard to find when you go looking for one, rather then letting one find you.”

— Aric Davis

The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.

— Neal Stephenson

“Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of…

— Horace

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot'…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for…

— Marjorie Liu

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a…

— Michael Scott

“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is…

— Sara Sheridan

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later…

— Sonja Sohn

I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do…

— Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to…

— Herbert Butterfield

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They…

— Douglas A. Martin

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to…

— Daniel Handler

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”…

— Anonymous

“Today, my love, I am too tired to write for you. You will find in your heart a letter, several pages, full…

— Christian Bobin

There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But…

— Corey Taylor

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

— John Steinbeck

“The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue”

— Cornelia Funke

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

— Anthony Doerr

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

“Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.”

— Will Hindmarch

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.

— Giles Coren

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.

— John Lithgow

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

— Erik Naggum

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.

— Molly Shannon

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

— Steve Harris

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan