Writing Quotes · Page 459

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

— Gail Porter

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

— John Edgar Wideman

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

— Max Winkler

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

— Max Schneider

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

— Thomston

“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

— James Joyce

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

— Rebecca Sugar

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move…

— Marge Piercy

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write,…

— Sean Connery

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games,…

— Matthea Harvey

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen…

— Christopher Paolini

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around…

— Jackson Guthy

“The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat…

— J.J. Brown

What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to…

— Colbie Caillat

“A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal…

— Monique Wittig

I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then…

— Stephen Sommers

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I like to write about relationships. I like it when my friends come over and we crowd around the piano and sing…

— Taylor Swift

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred…

— Justin Vernon

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If…

— Denis Leary

“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man…

— P.D. James

“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto Cuz where else in death do I get to go?”

— Carlos Salinas

“Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz”

— Kevin Ansbro

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

— John 5

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

— George R. R. Martin

“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”

— Paul Auster

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”

— The Script

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

— N. Scott Momaday

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner

“You are not a story, your life is a story and you are the writer, write an inspiring one.”

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan