Writing Quotes · Page 323

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

— Daniil Kharms

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

— Maren Morris

“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.”

— Virginia Woolf

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

— Tarja Turunen

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

— Dave Barry

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

“To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry…

— D.A. Botta

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write…

— Baby Halder

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe…

— Jimmy Buffett

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space…

— David Crosby

“It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she…

— robert m drake

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's…

— William Beckett

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one…

— Ron Rash

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to…

— Jonathan Franzen

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to…

— Rick Riordan

I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's…

— Sondre Lerche

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the…

— Morris Gleitzman

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.…

— Alan Moore

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well…

— Daniel Kahneman

My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not…

— Nick Tosches

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola

Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

— Clint Smith

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

— Sharon Creech

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.

— Gloria Emerson

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Leonard Bernstein

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

— George Whitefield

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. John Le Carre

— John Le Carre

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

— Roald Dahl

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.

— Graham Linehan

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

— Flannery O'Connor