Writing Quotes · Page 422

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

— Iron & Wine

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

— 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed

“I've written you a hundred messages that I'll never send”

— pleasefindthis

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

— Andre Dubus

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

— Angel Olsen

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to…

— Paulo Coelho

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to…

— Alanis Morissette

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where…

— Arundhati Roy

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always…

— Jodi Picoult

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is…

— James Salter

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it,…

— Vance Joy

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people,…

— Brad Thor

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark…

— Doris Betts

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more…

— Cameron Crowe

In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists,…

— Aaron Bruno

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter…

— Paul Kane

“indeed but little is said of Him by secular historians of His time. Few and short as are the allusions to Him…

— James E. Talmage

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the…

— Anonymous

I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,…

— Anthony de Mello

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

— Damian Marley

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

— Christopher Priest

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

— Colm Meaney

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

— Lauren Groff

“If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.”

— Larry Brown

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

— Ernest Hemingway

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

— Ben Stiller

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

— Jane Goldman

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

— Elizabeth Aston

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

— Danny Fox

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“Do you want to fuck off, or do you need a written invitation?”

— Santino Hassell

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

— Peter Morgan

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

— Eden Phillpotts

“All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.”

— Seth Godin