Writing Quotes · Page 503

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

— Shawn Mendes

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

— Jonathan Tropper

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

— Morgan Freeman

“Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.”

— Laurence Gane

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

— Larry Wall

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

— Poppy Z. Brite

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I…

— Ruth Glick

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and…

— Myles Kennedy

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money…

— Herbert Gold

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”

— T.F. Hodge

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its…

— Dick Francis

“When you are writing, you do not need to be as good as Poe, Shakespeare or Rowling. You need to be as…

— Giuseppe Bianco

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you…

— Miranda Lambert

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be…

— Frank Smith

“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom…

— David Foster Wallace

You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping…

— Dinara Safina

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how…

— Karen Kingsbury

We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were…

— Joshua Bell

I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just…

— Ann Coulter

Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going…

— Rainbow Rowell

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

— Marie Lu

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.”

— Stephanie Lennox

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

— Sam Shepard

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

— Rachel Carson

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

“Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.”

— Benjamin R. Smith

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

— Laura Wade

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

— Tierra Whack

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

— Hope Jahren

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

— Judd Apatow