Writing Quotes · Page 634

“Poems are scars translated to written or spoken form.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

Your eyes will see the dawn of the day and the writing on the wall.

— Pantera

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

— Rachael Yamagata

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

— Kevin Dillon

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

“You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!”

— Raouf Ayoub

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are…

— Peter Morgan

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to…

— Chad Gilbert

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing…

— Noel Redding

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so…

— Alan Menken

I didn't do anything but write for six months after I got my publishing deal. That was just trying to get better…

— Morgan Wallen

I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the…

— Jessica Abel

When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard…

— Filippo Brunelleschi

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount…

— Kem Nunn

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast.…

— John Lurie

I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle…

— Peter Gabriel

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

— Howard Hawks

“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.”

— Christy Hall

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

— R. Kelly

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

— Lauren Daigle

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

— Will Self

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

— Keshia Chante

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

— Chris Claremont

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Don't let life be what you read; Let it be what you write.”

— Samantha Santiago

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

— Renee Watson

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

— Rick Reilly

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

— Edward Young