Writing Quotes · Page 628

“Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream.”

— Elizabeth Paradise

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

— Carmen Laforet

I just wanted to write songs that would be amazing live, to interact with the audience.

— Chappell Roan

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

— William Zinsser

“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

— Tammy Wynette

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this…

— Ruby Gettinger

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean…

— Bill Gates

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus…

— Franz Kafka

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested…

— Stan Lee

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether…

— Alanis Morissette

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they…

— Lady Gaga

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,…

— Jack Kerouac

“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian…

— Sara Sheridan

I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think…

— Serj Tankian

“IRVING: Flowery prose. Verbosity. Some folks think they’re Neil Gaiman, and have ambitions of their scripts being reprinted for their adoring fans…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh…

— David Mandel

In the past, I've always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that…

— Cassadee Pope

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many…

— Don DeLillo

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

— Irwin Shaw

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

— Joe Eszterhas

“I write out those things no child should ever have been made to know”

— Stephen Reid

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

— Ken Marino

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

— Peter Temple

writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

— Mari Sandoz

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

— Judy Gold

“My name is Jongin. I’m the writer who lives next door. See you tomorrow, hyung. Don’t forget!”

— changdictator

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

— Jade Thirlwall