Writing Quotes · Page 645

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.”

— Theodora Goss

“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”

— Wilco

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying…

— Linda Perry

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids'…

— Jodi Picoult

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting…

— Stephen Karam

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they…

— Mary Badham

“the members of my writing group—provided three years of encouragement, careful reading, good advice, and friendship that sustained me.”

— Anita Diamant

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned…

— Philip Kitcher

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.…

— Stephenie Meyer

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a…

— Jonathan Evison

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate…

— Liz W. Garcia

I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your…

— John Rzeznik

My advice for finding a literary agent would be first, put your work out there as much as possible and hopefully someone…

— Sarah Cooper

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s…

— Jarod Kintz

I've never written anything before in my entire life, but I have read many comics, so I just wrote what I would…

— Iman Vellani

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

I want to sing something that I have written from scratch. How cool would that be.

— Jonita Gandhi

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

— James Lipton

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”

— Elinor Florence

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart