Writing Quotes · Page 571

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

— Anonymous

“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”

— James Paddock

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

— Grimes

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

— Napoleon Hill

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”

— Ernest Hemingway

After a couple of years in a professional setting, you'll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up…

— Andrew Yang

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even…

— Elizabeth Crook

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it…

— Chetan Bhagat

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

— Eric Hoffer

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You…

— Jim Varney

If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put…

— Chris Ware

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three,…

— Jenny Zhang

“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,…

— G.K. Chesterton

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had…

— Haruki Murakami

“Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what…

— Patrick Hicks

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they…

— N. K. Jemisin

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative…

— Sam Keen

“Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts”

— Pam Houston

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

— S. E. Hinton

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

— Gene Simmons

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

— Taylor Swift

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

— Johnny Vegas

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.

— Kate Mosse

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan