Writing Quotes · Page 367

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

— Robert Breault

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

— David LaChapelle

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

— David Cronenberg

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

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

— Conor O'Brien

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was…

— Aya Cash

“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.”

— Sara Sheridan

“A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have…

— Heather K. O'Hara

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

— George Saunders

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus…

— LIZ

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise…

— William Shakespeare

“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike…

— Michael Richardson

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you…

— Mark Oliver Everett

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur…

— Terri Windling

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be…

— Misha Green

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try…

— Kitty Kelley

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard…

— Steve Earle

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those…

— Philip M. Parker

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

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

— Umberto Eco

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

— Jean Rhys

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

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

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

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

— Ira Sadoff

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

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

— William Trevor