Writing Quotes · Page 602

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

— Dave Mustaine

“Why dwell on the past, when we have yet to write the future”

— P.A. Henley

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

— Kelly Marie Tran

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

“I wanted to write about crazy people, but I realized I didn't understand my subject well enough.”

— Noir

The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

— G. Edward Griffin

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

— Mahesh Babu

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the…

— Elizabeth George

When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core…

— Torrey Peters

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write…

— Bill Shankly

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would…

— Joan Didion

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then…

— Jeffery Deaver

“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which…

— Robert Musil

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the…

— Robert Penn Warren

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives…

— Joan Frank

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury…

— Stella Benson

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and…

— Pat Conroy

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,…

— Dean Koontz

“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its…

— Frank Bidart

I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still…

— Alan Moore

“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through…

— Markus Zusak

People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part…

— Dan Bejar

Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep…

— Eusebius

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

— George Pelecanos

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

— Mark Hoppus

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

— David Farland

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

— Neil Diamond

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,

— Derek Walcott

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

— Sonali Bendre

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

— Lauren Mayberry

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

— Isaac Asimov

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

— Janet Jackson

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

— Karen Thompson Walker

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

— Charli XCX

“To hell with everything I myself have ever written.”

— William Carlos Williams

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

— Dennis Potter

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

— Satyadev Kancharana

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella