Writing Quotes · Page 462

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

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— Laptop Notebook

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

“Extremist sects in Islam cultivated cryptography to conceal their writings from the orthodox.”

— David Kahn

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Anonymous

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less…

— Julia Cameron

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things…

— Anthony Bourdain

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their…

— John Frusciante

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

— Jacob Tremblay

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be…

— Adele

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

— Ernest Hemingway

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could…

— Smokey Robinson

As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus…

— Markus Zusak

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of…

— C.E. Morgan

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into…

— Gus Van Sant

I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off…

— Franny Armstrong

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who…

— William Faulkner

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a…

— Merle Haggard

Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is…

— Amadou Hampate Ba

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

— Sharon Doubiago

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

“Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!”

— K.D. Faerydae

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

— Allison Janney

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

— Winston Graham

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24…

— Michael Beschloss

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

— Lidija Dimkovska

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

“It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.”

— S.M. Blooding

“Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?”

— Jennifer Echols

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

— Kamal Haasan

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

— William Gibson