Writing Quotes · Page 600

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

— Joyce Maynard

I write music I like to write and that I'm comfortable with.

— Eddie Rabbitt

“Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

— Vince Gilligan

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

— Matt Duffer

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

— J. K. Rowling

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

— Andrea Arnold

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way…

— Paul Auster

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you…

— John Eldredge

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more…

— Mick Ralphs

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young…

— Viola Davis

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he…

— Anonymous

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic…

— Curtis Hanson

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant…

— Alaa Alghamdi

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than…

— David Remnick

“A CEO of a very successful company told him that in the corporate world, to get the kind of high level expertise…

— Bob Mayer

“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest…

— Lori Lifsey

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was…

— Vinny Guadagnino

Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,…

— Bart Millard

“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I…

— William Boyd

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris…

— Abdellah Taia

In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered…

— Anonymous

“Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.”

— Rick Springfield

“Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!”

— Deeba Salim Irfan

“I think I'm very complex. That's why I'm still writing after all of these years :)”

— Milena Gomez

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

— Joan Didion

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

— J. K. Rowling

“While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.”

— Anonymous

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

— will.i.am

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

— George Perez

“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.”

— Bonnie Huie

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

— Chad Harbach

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

— Sri Chinmoy

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

— Nina Simone

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

— Norman Lear