Writing Quotes · Page 637

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

— Howard Nemerov

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

— Steve Earle

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

— Paul Simon

I get to be creative and to write: two of my favorite things.

— Louise Roe

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

— Hisaye Yamamoto

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

I hate when I'm about to write something inspirational and I puke all over my phone and have to get a new…

— Nikhil Saluja

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,…

— Janet Evanovich

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to…

— Pete Seeger

It is true I've written songs for other performers; I've worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.

— Chesney Hawkes

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie"…

— Alissa Nutting

You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.

— Frank Deford

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful…

— Junot Diaz

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and…

— David Bowie

An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in…

— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic…

— Alan Moore

Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect…

— J. M. DeMatteis

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Once the writers of the Common Core arrived at what standards they concluded were needed to graduate from high school – and…

— Terry Marselle

“I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.”

— Mark Twain

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

— Arda Collins

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

— Eliot Spitzer

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

— Bruce Vilanch

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

— Richard Rodney Bennett

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

— Julie Plec

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.

— Anthony Jeselnik

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Natalie Goldberg

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

— Nicola Cornick

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

— Walter Savage Landor

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

— Charles Kuralt

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

— Kool Keith