Writing Quotes · Page 604

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

— Darren Criss

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

— Stephen Chbosky

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

— David Guterson

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given…

— Wallace Shawn

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds…

— Matthew Ramsey

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative…

— Eric Bana

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

“When intentional, there is no right or wrong in writing—only creativity, personality and a new way to look at words. If you…

— Ryan J. Alls

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.…

— Horton Foote

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being…

— Gloria Steinem

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but…

— David Eagleman

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,…

— Rodney Crowell

I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an…

— Sarah Weeks

You're going to run into a great deal of opinions. I think that's just fertile ground for us. What else would you…

— Thomas Sadoski

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,…

— Richard Matheson

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in…

— Andrew Motion

“It seemed just as clear to me that I would never pick up a pen again, fill a page with writing. The…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or…

— Rory Stewart

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

— David Thewlis

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

— Red Smith

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

We in the same picture But we all got different poses

— Lil Wayne

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

— Pierre Berton

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.”

— Gabriela Pereira

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

— Jesse Ball