Writing Quotes · Page 507

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

— Sarah Dessen

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

— Sam Shepard

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

— Rufus Wainwright

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

— Ariel Dorfman

“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

— Gustave Flaubert

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

— Anonymous

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day…

— Johnny Cash

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

— Owen Wilson

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find…

— Anton Chekhov

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't.…

— Aimee Bender

I think a lot of things that I write do have some type of message behind them, but that's not always how…

— Ego Nwodim

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to…

— Toni Cade Bambara

If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I…

— Pablo Neruda

“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the…

— Clive Barker

“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to…

— Roman Payne

It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're…

— Dan Mazer

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury

When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who…

— George Steiner

“The writers in this book share the common belief that diabetes does not need to be chronic and progressive. We also share…

— Tim Noakes

I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one…

— Catharine Sedgwick

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

— Seth Numrich

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

— Maynard James Keenan

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

— Norman Mailer

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

— Iron & Wine

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

— 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed

“I've written you a hundred messages that I'll never send”

— pleasefindthis

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

— Andre Dubus

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

— Angel Olsen

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

— Damian Marley

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

— Christopher Priest

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

— Colm Meaney