Writing Quotes · Page 614

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

— James Mercer

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

— Patton Oswalt

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

— Lou Barlow

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

“I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

— Olivier Megaton

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

— Tony Gilroy

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

— Paul Auster

I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

— Robert Irvine

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills,…

— Daphne du Maurier

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

— Taboo

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.

— Nick Castle

I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates…

— Sefi Atta

“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human…

— Donald Miller

“The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is…

— Archibald MacLeish

I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy…

— Alan Titchmarsh

There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes,…

— Joan Wallach Scott

“Before, I thought we could write about life only when we had recovered from our wounds; when we were able to touch…

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,…

— John Taylor Gatto

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even…

— James Wolpert

When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a…

— Benny Blanco

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

— Donald Barthelme

“Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.”

— Chriscinthia Blount

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

— Christine Leunens

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

— Anne Enright

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

— Joel Coen

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

— Warren Buffett

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

— Paulo Coelho

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

I love writing super sad songs, and I love writing big pop songs.

— Griff

“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.”

— Christy Hall

“The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

— Graham Nash