Writing Quotes · Page 576

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

— Michael Chabon

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

— Seth

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

— Rumaan Alam

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

— Amy Shearn

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

— Dan S Kennedy

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do…

— David Wilcock

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top…

— Larry Winget

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in…

— Noah Hawley

“I once assigned a graduate class Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life—a book I love—and one of the students said, “It’s so effing…

— Robert Olen Butler

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

— Bo Burnham

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are…

— Paul Schrader

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone…

— Lizz Winstead

I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a…

— Will Forte

I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn't know what else to do. I…

— John Lee Hancock

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any…

— Rod Serling

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on…

— Stone Gossard

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully…

— Robert Scholes

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance…

— Mark Twain

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for…

— Walter Kirn

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with…

— Kathryn Lasky

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.

— Jain

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

— Cary Elwes

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

— Katie White

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“write something you feel about, than delete it. bam! you go back to the start with fresh mind”

— Anonymous

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

— Brian Tracy

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

— Chris Van Allsburg

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

— Osamu Dazai

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

— Ron Pope