Writing Quotes · Page 469

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

— Billie Eilish

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

— George Carlin

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

— Abraham Lincoln

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

— robert m drake

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

— Carson McCullers

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

— Brendan O'Carroll

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

I will be moving to London to reinvent my whole identity the way Alice (Jane Jones) did in the movie, Closer.

— Needa Muy

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to…

— Thomas Paine

There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored…

— Brandon Routh

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

— Daniel Lyons

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

— Laura Dern

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going…

— James Franco

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have…

— Brian Helgeland

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms…

— Peter York

“The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified…

— Jeff Goldblum

My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want…

— Smokey Robinson

“The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere…

— Evie Wyld

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I…

— Stone Gossard

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song… It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make…

— M. Ward

The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”

— Dr. Poison King

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

— Ellen Gilchrist

“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

— Dolly Parton

“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“What’s writing anyway, but us ghosts in here singing?”

— Michael Stutz

“When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.”

— K.J. Parker

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.

— Tara Moss

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

— Billy Sherwood

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

— Marsai Martin

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

— Benjamin Franklin

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

— Alexander Pope

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

— Vijay