Writing Quotes · Page 579

I mean I write poems in these songs, dedicated to the fun sex.

— Drake

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

— Gerard Way

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

I love acting, I love directing, I love writing, I love producing, I love creating.

— Joivan Wade

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

— Bryan Adams

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

— John Cooper Clarke

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

— Tom Robbins

“I'm still writing about you and you haven't read a word.”

— Travis Grant

“You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be…

— Robert J. Randisi

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to…

— Lori Lansens

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think…

— Tess Gerritsen

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

— John Updike

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with…

— Ralph Ellison

I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a…

— Rupi Kaur

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

— Anatole Broyard

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and…

— Janine di Giovanni

“Even today it’s not uncommon to find teachers who believe that if a child can’t take a pen in hand and write…

— Sally A. Spencer

It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in…

— John Kleinig

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they…

— Claud Cockburn

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of…

— George Saunders

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to…

— Diana Gabaldon

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But…

— Mohsin Hamid

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go…

— Steven Johnson

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

— Colbie Caillat

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

— Catherine Gaskin

“Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.”

— Beem Weeks

There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.

— Cuco

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

— Dorothy Allison

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

“Your intuition already knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell