Writing Quotes · Page 328

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

— Charli XCX

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

— Tom Perrotta

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

— Eudora Welty

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

— Thomas Perry

“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

— Ally Condie

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

— Sharon Van Etten

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that…

— Anonymous

“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what…

— Joe Fassler

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

— Elinor Lipman

When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I…

— Vin Diesel

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading…

— Kameron Hurley

I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but…

— Julie Plec

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing…

— Sayyid Qutb

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a…

— Mara Wilson

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,…

— Simin Behbahani

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped…

— Stephen King

When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you…

— Cody Johnson

You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing…

— Pope John Paul I

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write…

— Brandi Carlile

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't…

— Jodi Picoult

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -…

— Michel Leiris

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

“Help me write us a new ending to the best story I've ever read.”

— Kirk Diedrich

“You used to be entertaining before you started to write.”

— f scoot fitzgerald

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

— Samuel Beckett

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

— John Mayer

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous