Writing Quotes · Page 642

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

— Larry Niven

How one supposed to grow if you're generating derogatory feelings?

— Raghib Clitso

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

“Maybe we're not the most faithful heroes, but maybe at least we can describe them.”

— HAZEM ABDELMOWLA

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

— Justin Sane

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

— Ryan Tedder

“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines…

— Robert Kaplan

“I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood?…

— JeanNicole Rivers

“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think…

— Scott Adams

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with…

— Judy Davis

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,…

— Adrienne Rich

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a…

— Tom Robbins

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to…

— Mary Archer

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So…

— Umberto Eco

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal…

— Dana Gioia

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered…

— J. P. Donleavy

I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and…

— Michael Arndt

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what…

— Jonathan Franzen

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow…

— Sandra Cisneros

8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect…

— William Clark Green

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black…

— Audre Lorde

First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their…

— Gary A. Klein

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

— Igor Stravinsky

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

— Anonymous

“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology”

— Stephenie Meyer

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

— Maya Angelou

Beauty is not perfection; life is not without suffering; and a piece of writing can never be flawless.

— Melchor Lim

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

— Lauren Conrad

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

— Adrien Brody

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

— John Travolta

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

— Nikki Giovanni

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

— Isabel Allende

“To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home”

— Theodor W. Adorno

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

— Julian Clary

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis