Writing Quotes · Page 622

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

— Octavia E. Butler

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

— Jerry Harrison

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

“Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written”

— Brooke Stonex

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

— Sylvester Stallone

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where…

— Diane Warren

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to…

— J.I.D

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write -…

— James Salter

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've…

— Chris Carmack

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be…

— Alan Garner

“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.”

— Tepilit Ole Saitoti

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees…

— Steven Brust

“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.…

— Keelie Breanna

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want…

— Richard Fleeshman

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of…

— Calvin Niles

In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes…

— Celeste Ng

My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always…

— Barack Obama

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would…

— Charlie Daniels

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could…

— Lorenz Hart

“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

— Henry Miller

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

— Ben Hecht

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to…

— Dave Haywood

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

— Bradley Sands

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

— Michael J. Fox

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore

“This is why I write: I believe the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary stories.”

— Lucy Ke

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

— Adam Silvera

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

— Sheilah Graham Westbrook

If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period.

— Rebecca Serle

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

— Lisa See

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

— Cassandra Clare

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

— How to Dress Well