Writing Quotes · Page 333

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

— Ray Bradbury

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

— Ken Kesey

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

— George Saunders

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply…

— W. H. Auden

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The sketch should lead the cutting pattern, which is to say content should dictate style, which is to say that in TV…

— Tina Fey

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, “Don’t they realize they’re paying us for doing something we’d be thrilled to…

— David V. Picker

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that…

— Emma Donoghue

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

— Michael Chabon

“I have written some very strict University rules that I plan to stick to: 1. No Alcohol 2. No cigarettes 3. No…

— Anna Bloom

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an…

— Danny Pino

I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to…

— Gary Giddins

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I…

— Lauren Groff

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my…

— Mindy Kaling

One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild.…

— Laurie Sheck

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I…

— Ai Weiwei

After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one…

— Devin Townsend

I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want…

— Kitty Kelley

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

— Mark Lanegan

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

— Robert Anderson

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

— Joseph Haydn

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

— Mitch Glazer

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”

— Jo Linsdell

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

— Sarah Ruhl

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

— Tanya Saracho

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

— Archibald MacLeish

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

— Richard Hugo