Writing Quotes · Page 618

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.”

— Ken Scott

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

— Félix J. Palma

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

— Bobby Womack

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

— Pam Allyn

“I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?”

— W. Eugene Smth

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

— Margot Robbie

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

— Al Madrigal

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff,…

— John Fahey

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not…

— Zia Haider Rahman

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet…

— Joseph Brodsky

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it,…

— James Thurber

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not…

— Ellen Glasgow

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,…

— Frances White

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle…

— Julia Child

“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when…

— Robin McKinley

I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a…

— Lauren Groff

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to…

— Michael Jackson

“A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away…

— J. G. Ballard

“Artists frequently hide the steps that lead to their masterpieces. They want their work and their career to be shrouded in the…

— Matthew Weiner

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of…

— Anonymous

I think you want to be writing about the world that we live in.

— Chris Chibnall

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

— Gerald Asher

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love music more than anything, but writing was like my first love.

— Gracie Abrams

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

— Joe Trohman

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

— Kinky Friedman

“A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

— Adriana Trigiani

“All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.”

— Jarod Kintz

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition.

— Jo Beverley

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

— Michael Giacchino

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken