Writing Quotes · Page 525

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

— Denzel Washington

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

— Nick Cave

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

— Allen Tate

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

— Claire Messud

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”

— Ibn Battuta

“The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.”

— George will

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People…

— Richard Hell

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the…

— Richard Wilbur

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in…

— Danielle Trussoni

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

— Jaime King

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist…

— Rafael Yglesias

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

— Diana Gabaldon

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about…

— Kajol

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that…

— Dan Brown

For me, as a trans writer, is the Philip Roth trajectory available to me? Could I be commenting on American stuff long…

— Torrey Peters

When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able…

— Anthony DeCurtis

“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will…

— Agatha Christie

I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a…

— Meghan Daum

Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is…

— Amadou Hampate Ba

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a…

— Merle Haggard

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

— Jane Fallon

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

— Michael Ondaatje

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

— Nick Cave

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

— Wendy Liebman

I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling.

— Frank Peretti

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag

A state may well not survive its writers telling its people the truth

— Anonymous

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

— Tara Westover

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

— Shawn Wayans

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

— Peter Steele

“While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.”

— Aporva Kala

“Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .”

— Dennis R. Miller