Writing Quotes · Page 656

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

“Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

— Jimmy Webb

I self-edit all the time when Im writing. I enjoy reading the story over and over, tweaking it as I go.

— Stephenie Meyer

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more…

— Haruki Murakami

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you…

— Martin Amis

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect…

— Meg Cabot

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to…

— David Gelernter

“if you start writing with no idea of an ending, you’ll produce the longest, and best story you’ve ever written.”

— Blowthecandlesoutt

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do…

— J. B. Priestley

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited,…

— Edward Steichen

In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce,…

— David Sedaris

And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved…

— Michael Chabon

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going…

— Judith Jamison

There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford…

— Patricia Leavy

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

— Charli XCX

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

“You used to be entertaining before you started to write.”

— f scoot fitzgerald

“Help me write us a new ending to the best story I've ever read.”

— Kirk Diedrich

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

— Eudora Welty

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

— Tom Perrotta

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

— Sharon Van Etten

“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

— Ally Condie