Writing Quotes · Page 508

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

— Mark Twain

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

— Anthony Shadid

You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.

— Joseph Sugarman

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

— Zadie Smith

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.”

— Aldous Huxley

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large…

— Augustus William Hare

“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.”

— Stephen King

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have…

— M.F. Moonzajer

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you…

— Ed Sheeran

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going…

— Matt Bellamy

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the…

— David Bryan

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how…

— Alan Menken

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two…

— Thighpaulsandra

Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture…

— Elif Safak

“When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate…

— Beverly S. Harless

I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was…

— Tom Cruise

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the…

— Anna Kamienska

Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy.…

— Stan Lee

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that…

— Adrian Tomine

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one…

— Kevin Keck

The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's…

— Chelsea Martin

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

— Chunky Pandey

“Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.”

— Jennifer Webb

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

— Graham Swift

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

— Anonymous

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.”

— John Steinbeck

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

— Rachel Gibson

“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.”

— Michael Jackson

“This brief transcript of moments, written in the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.”

— David Levithan

“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.”

— Katie McGarry

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano

“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.”

— Ryan Holiday