Writing Quotes · Page 327

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

— Madi Diaz

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

I'm constantly writing songs to show people that it's okay to be a work in progress.

— Jelly Roll

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

— Djuna Barnes

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

— Emily Hampshire

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

— Joseph Brodsky

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

— J. G. Ballard

“...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and…

— Stephen Koch

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop.…

— Guy Davenport

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,'…

— Penny Johnson Jerald

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I…

— Lee Hazlewood

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the…

— Terry Pratchett

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself…

— Kevin Grevioux

“According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I…

— John Irving

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York…

— Anonymous

I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion…

— Joan Didion

When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I…

— Dani Shapiro

“Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied "For praise." Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote…

— James Salter

I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too…

— Andrea Gabriel

“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.”

— Richard Ridley

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

— Paul McCartney

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

— Jimmy Webb

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

“Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

I self-edit all the time when Im writing. I enjoy reading the story over and over, tweaking it as I go.

— Stephenie Meyer