Writing Quotes · Page 309

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

— Grimes

“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”

— James Paddock

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

— Anonymous

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

— Zosia Mamet

“Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.”

— Kamal Ravikant

“hand writing has been shown to form stronger neural connections.”

— Jennifer April

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I…

— Steve Berry

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

— Toni Morrison

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally…

— George Bernard Shaw

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes…

— Anonymous

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always…

— Gloria Estefan

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

— Michael Crichton

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

— Melanie Martinez

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of…

— David Bowie

For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a…

— Julia Alvarez

An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,…

— William C. Brown

“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting…

— Sue Isle

Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens…

— Marci Shimoff

“In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but…

— Marcus Gray

I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other,…

— Jason Reeves

the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear…

— Max D. Adams

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

— Big K.R.I.T

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

— Lee Ranaldo

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

— Pat Conroy

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

— Robert Frost

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'

— Kelley Armstrong

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

— Laozi

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

— Steven Gundry