Writing Quotes · Page 588

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

— Taylor Swift

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

— Ray Bradbury

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

— Ruskin Bond

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

— Raymond Chandler

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

— Anthony Burgess

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

— Tammy Wynette

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also…

— Robin Thicke

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

— T.C. Boyle

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying…

— Martha Ronk

“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I…

— Roman Payne

I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into…

— Nick Petrie

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the…

— Mike Gordon

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect…

— Melanie Martinez

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of…

— Grace Paley

We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today.…

— Richard M. Schulze

The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in…

— John Brandon

CHAPTER 3 Searching through the seasons After that night things changed. When I went to parties I no longer saw Stark, at…

— Jade

When I'm in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop…

— Kevin Young

I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema…

— Albert Serra

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all…

— Anais Nin

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.…

— Fredric Brown

“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a…

— Neil Gaiman

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

— Tim Crouch

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

— Pablo Neruda

“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.”

— Elizabeth Winder

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

— Ernest Gaines

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

— Anonymous

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

— Norman Podhoretz

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

— Vernor Vinge

“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

— Hill Harper

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— Laptop Review

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

— Jorge Luis Borges