Writing Quotes · Page 308

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

— Erin McKeown

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

— Johnny Vegas

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

— S. E. Hinton

“The Difference between Writers and Editors. Writers are creative using one end of a pencil. Editors are more adept using the opposite…

— Roy A Higgins

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

— John Britt Daniel

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and…

— Peter Berg

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

— Frances Trollope

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading…

— Anonymous

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what…

— Patricia MacLachlan

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great…

— William Gibson

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to…

— Sharon Van Etten

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't…

— Francesca Lia Block

“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on…

— Mark Twain

It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a…

— Eric Bana

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER…

— Napoleon Hill

Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to…

— John Buffalo Mailer

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across…

— Bernard Sahlins

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

— Taylor Swift

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

— Gene Simmons

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

“Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts”

— Pam Houston

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

“Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.”

— Mallika Tripathi

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

— Robert Benchley

“will you be the one reading the book or writing the book”

— Abe

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

— Leo Tolstoy