Writing Quotes · Page 439

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

— Anonymous

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

— James M. Cain

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

— Walter Dean Myers

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

— Les Back

“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.”

— Lara Biuts

“I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page…

— R.J. Dennis

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

— Alvin Dark

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his…

— Ai Weiwei

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed…

— Theo Van Gogh

“Writing is not just my Hobby . Pen is mouthpiece of my feelings,I have no another one But paper is my best…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

— Kiefer Sutherland

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four…

— John Feldmann

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing…

— Graham Parker

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

— Prodigy

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind…

— Virgil Thomson

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am…

— Robert Emmet

As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so…

— Grant Heslov

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…

— Jacques Monod

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet.…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard…

— Phil Klay

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it.…

— Samuel Kermis

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of…

— J. R. Moehringer

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a…

— J. K. Rowling

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

— Michelle Wolf

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

— Kate DiCamillo

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

— Soni Razdan

“The question is not what the writer meant, but what he conveyed to those who heard or read.”

— Clement Gatley

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

I liked writing before I figured out I liked acting.

— Lucas Cruikshank

I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

— Jim Rash

“You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike”

— Robert Galbraith

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

— Richard Stallman

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

— Grace Paley

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

— Leonora Carrington

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

— Alan Furst

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

— Joan Armatrading