Writing Quotes · Page 403

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Anonymous

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I can't write when it's silent. But the music can't have lyrics.

— Marie Lu

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

— Dennis Potter

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

— Dar Williams

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Thomas E has already told me that he had to write a tweet for English and that his teacher liked his rough…

— Paula Poundstone

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I…

— Jeff Kinney

I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more…

— Virginia Woolf

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is…

— Will Self

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading…

— Alan Lightman

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest…

— Max Lucado

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time.…

— Richard Greenberg

Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so…

— Anonymous

One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this…

— Steven Knight

“This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength…

— Franz Kafka

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,…

— Zadie Smith

I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they…

— Emma Kenney

I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a…

— John Grisham

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my…

— Tracy K. Smith

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was…

— Anthony Hopkins

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

— George Carlin

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

— Billie Eilish

“A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.”

— Carol Morgan

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

— Ridley Scott

“So what if I fall? I know I will never fall as hard as i fell for you.”

— Timothy Joshua

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

— Brendan O'Carroll

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

— Carson McCullers

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

— robert m drake

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

— Abraham Lincoln

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”

— Dr. Poison King

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich