Writing Quotes · Page 577

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

— Diane Warren

You can't write story together if u are not on the same page

— D Cortus

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

— Anne Sexton

“How is your writing going, Michael?" "Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.”

— Frederic Raphael

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

— Clarice Lispector

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

— Arthur C. Clarke

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third…

— Roy Peter Clark

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

— Diablo Cody

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it…

— Lisa See

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way…

— Barry Gibb

“Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be…

— Patti Roberts

I just write from my own experience and they're very real. They're all the things that I've been through, all situations I've…

— Lola Young

“One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.”

— Ralph Keyes

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is…

— Anonymous

In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for…

— Justin Cartwright

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after…

— Edna Ferber

I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the…

— Sarah Kay

As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the…

— Torrey Peters

People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.…

— Etgar Keret

I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,…

— Ella Baker

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

— Nick Hornby

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

— Daniel Pinkwater

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

— Anne-Marie

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

— Cass McCombs

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

— Sadako Sasaki

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.”

— Rebecca Makkai

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

— Dolly Parton

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

— Trey Anastasio

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

— Andrea Barrett

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

— Joss Whedon