Writing Quotes · Page 490

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

— Harlan Coben

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

— Frank Ocean

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

— Elinor Glyn

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the…

— Barbara Mertz

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

— Jack Zipes

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

— Antoniette Costa

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

— Amy Winehouse

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

— Ellen Glasgow

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

— T-Pain

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do…

— Jennifer Aniston

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need…

— Hal Zina Bennett

Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it.

— Ken MacLeod

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require…

— John Cooper Clarke

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to…

— Sylvia Day

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working…

— Kate DiCamillo

In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified…

— Maurice Ravel

Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be…

— Roxana Robinson

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits…

— Melissa Bank

I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part…

— David Sedaris

“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If…

— Roselle Angwin

I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they…

— Joel Plaskett

The main thing is to believe writers know what their voices are, and if they are left alone, they will come through…

— Julia Davis

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

— James McBride

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

— Anoop Menon

“To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.”

— DiAnn Mills

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

— John Mellencamp

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

— Virginia Woolf

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

— Ken Liu

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

— Ann Patchett

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

— Anonymous

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase,

— Anonymous

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

— Chris O'Dowd