Writing Quotes · Page 329

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

— Pete Townshend

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

— Taylor Swift

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

— Bill Watterson

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it…

— Jarod Kintz

“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).”

— Philip Roth

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.”

— Salman Rushdie

“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money…

— Val Guest

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty…

— Leon Russell

You can kind of ask around for details. You might get a little information here and there, even from the other actors,…

— Gretchen Mol

“It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of…

— Kory Stamper

There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the…

— Dani Shapiro

When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the…

— Laszlo Nemes

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and…

— Alan Lightman

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,…

— Brian Eno

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

— J. B. Priestley

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

— Gail Honeyman

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

— Edward Steichen

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

— Jeffery Deaver

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

— Ian Gillan

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe.

— Diana Gabaldon

“breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My”

— Marcel Proust

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

— Michael Gartner

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

— Atul Gawande

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim