Writing Quotes · Page 378

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”

— Elinor Florence

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She…

— Timothy Findley

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who…

— John Larroquette

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are…

— Wadah Khanfar

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest…

— Ben Harper

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

— R. K. Milholland

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

— Laura Linney

There are some discrepencies in the writings of Paul. Some Christians chose those ones that say that women should be restricted in…

— Jimmy Carter

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a…

— Criss Jami

I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,…

— Michael Uslan

Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was…

— Rick Warren

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but…

— Luanne Rice

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense,…

— Tommy Smothers

With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking…

— Victor J. Stenger

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still…

— Lynne Tillman

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how…

— Graham Hancock

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

— James Lipton

I want to sing something that I have written from scratch. How cool would that be.

— Jonita Gandhi

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

— Willie Nelson

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart