Writing Quotes · Page 617

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

— Taylor Swift

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

— Richard Simmons

“in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.”

— Anne Lamott

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

— David Labrava

“I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.”

— Natalya Vorobyova

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you…

— Beth Moore

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much…

— Akhil Sharma

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more…

— J. A. Jance

I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was…

— Fats Domino

“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in…

— Joanna Russ

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates…

— Isabel Allende

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while…

— Steven Millhauser

The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was…

— Lena Dunham

“I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell. This is my plan. I will do it…

— Carolee Dean

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you…

— Robin Sloan

Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as…

— Richard Bach

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but…

— Bill James

“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the…

— Pierre Bayard

Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a…

— Italo Calvino

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

— Horace

“I only write when I am falling in love, or falling apart.”

— Rudy F

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

— Russell Banks

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

— Henri Matisse

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

— Judd Apatow

ST8SMK Appreciate you sharing, great blog. Keep writing.

— Notebook Review

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

— Roy H. Williams

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

— Lake Bell

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard." --Disgrace”

— J.M. Coetzee