Writing Quotes · Page 413

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

— Judy Gold

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

— Vijay Deverakonda

“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

— Sayed Kashua

In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,…

— Dylan Moran

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

— John Edgar Wideman

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative…

— Jackson Browne

“I don’t want to be one of those writers a publisher will publish just to make a buck. I want to be…

— Steven Lloyd

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that…

— Nell Freudenberger

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal.…

— Jason Reeves

[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write…

— Anonymous

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.…

— Betty Smith

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly,…

— Robin Beth Schaer

“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart…

— Anonymous

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a…

— Henry James

“His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge…

— Jim Al-Khalili

I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many…

— Hilary Kornblith

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a…

— Dan Brown

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

— Eric Bachmann

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

— Edgar Wright

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

“There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“You are the storyteller, and this life is your story.”

— Lisa Wimberger

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

— Nick Cave

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

— Masanobu Fukuoka

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

— Len Wein

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

— Diana Gabaldon

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

— Neal Asher

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

— Greg Weisman

“My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.”

— Nicholaa Spencer