Writing Quotes · Page 306

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.

— Joe Maddon

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

— James Taylor

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

— R. Kelly

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when…

— Sylvester Stallone

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk…

— Paul Heyman

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.”

— George G. Williams

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it…

— Danielle Dutton

I always try, if I can, to travel before I start a writing project. For me, travelling is my education. It inspires…

— Dan Levy

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now…

— Kathy Valentine

Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of…

— William Crookes

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write…

— Julia Cameron

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have…

— Donald Kaufman

I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember…

— Alex Garland

“God as preached and lived by Jesus, the Enlightenment writers put human non-exclusionary justice ahead of the law. This rational philosophy did…

— Frank Schaeffer

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

— Cass McCombs

I appreciate you sharing this article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Social

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

— Sigrid Nunez

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

— Rachel Zucker

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

— Maeve Binchy

“about that too, ma’am,” he said, writing up her citation, “but what made”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.

— Ariel Levy

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

— James Lee Burke

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

— Angela Alioto

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

— Thomas Huxley

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

— TRIPURARI

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

— Anonymous

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

— Will Champion

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

— Paul Haggis