Writing Quotes · Page 586

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.”

— C.G. Coppola

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

— Doris Betts

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

— Leni Zumas

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

— Robin Roberts

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank…

— Nora Roberts

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it…

— Ayn Rand

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have…

— Lance Armstrong

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times…

— Judith Krantz

I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as…

— Wesley Schultz

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and…

— Laurie Sheck

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it…

— Pablo Casals

"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other…

— Paul Weller

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a…

— David Rakoff

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to…

— Tom Hodgkinson

I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who…

— Judd Apatow

Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more…

— Tim Kring

“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day…

— Stephanie Michel

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

— Tori Amos

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

— Jerry Pournelle

If writing were a sport, I would totally have a six pack.

— Kaitlen Dearing

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

— John Edensor Littlewood

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop