Writing Quotes · Page 620

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

— Beck

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

— Larry the Cable Guy

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

— Flannery O'Connor

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

— Wallis Simpson

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

— Norman Mailer

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

— Yoko Ono

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in…

— Grace Cavalieri

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting…

— Aaron Sorkin

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is…

— Rebecca Serle

“With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.”

— Eric Maisel

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write…

— Chris Daughtry

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and…

— Kacey Musgraves

“You put your soul into something and people think they can pass judgment on it just like that." She snapped her fingers.…

— Sonali Dev

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

— Anonymous

“The application of this principle may be made through a simple arrangement of positive thought impulses stated in writing, memorized, and repeated,…

— Napoleon Hill

If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good…

— Glennon Melton

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting…

— William Ernest Henley

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words…

— Sarah Waters

When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility…

— Mary GrandPre

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate…

— Elif Batuman

The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not…

— Norman Davies

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

— Chord Overstreet

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

— Anonymous

I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

— Verite

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

— Five for Fighting

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

— Max Landis

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

— Umberto Eco

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard