Writing Quotes · Page 435

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).”

— Mike Schmoker

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

— David Guterson

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've…

— Daphne Gottlieb

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to…

— Pam Houston

I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the…

— Scott Weiland

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors…

— Brian Baumgartner

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules…

— Edmund White

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

— Oliver Jeffers

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short…

— Keith Richards

If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by…

— Richard Henry Lee

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that…

— Sevyn Streeter

I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the…

— Scott Glenn

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and…

— Matthew Zapruder

Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show…

— Judd Apatow

“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live…

— Nicole Brossard

I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have…

— T.C. Boyle

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by…

— Andy Wilkinson

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

— William Cowper

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

— Damien Chazelle

“A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.”

— Randall Jarrell

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

— Danielle Trussoni

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

— Lois Lowry

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart.”

— Charles A. Cornell

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

— Sara Shepard

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

— Clive Cussler

Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One

— Meg Cabot

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

— Augustus De Morgan

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri