Writing Quotes · Page 40

I'm a conservative classical writer.

— Peter Handke

I wrote a thousand words every day

— Jack London

Writing a book is not a crime.

— Alexander Ahndoril

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

— Lillian Hellman

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

Never write a letter when you are angry.

— Nikhil Saluja

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

— Xavier Dolan

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

— Ian Mckellen

Write my little raps, smoke my little weed. Sold a little crack just to fund my little needs.

— Meek Mill

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

— Estelle Fanta Swaray

I don't know why I end up writing about such heavy topics.

— Declan McKenna

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

— Isaac Asimov

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm…

— Janet Fitch

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises…

— W. S. Merwin

I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try…

— Jonah Hill

it wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool…

— Kanye West

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing.…

— E. L. Doctorow

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music…

— Doug Walters

If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will…

— Tamora Pierce

I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to…

— Leon Russell

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate…

— Joseph Conrad

“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has…

— Chelsea M. Cameron

The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think…

— Don Helms

“I was born near Sydney, Australia, a long time ago. A lovely young woman named Dawn married me in 1972 and we…

— P.J. Hartnett

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about…

— Eldar Djangirov

“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. You better be comfortable with your body if you're gonna remove your clothes in public…

— Kit Yan

I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the…

— Jorma Kaukonen

To choose to write is to reject silence.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

— Kate McKinnon

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

— Gordon Lish

One hates an author that's all author.

— Lord Byron

“Write or don't write. There is only try.”

— Kim Smith

I just write when fear overtakes me.

— Fran Lebowitz