Writing Quotes · Page 664

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

— Anatole France

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.

— Robert Christgau

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

— Harlan Howard

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

— Anne Rice

“Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard”

— GBickle

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

— Kate Morton

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have…

— Miranda Cosgrove

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

— Don Pendleton

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for…

— Beth Hart

“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”

— Kelli Jae Baeli

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but…

— Tim LaHaye

“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”

— Elmore Leonard

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their…

— Peter D. Kramer

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image…

— Thomas Gray

“My writing doesn’t improve if you think it’s great, and it doesn’t lessen if you think it sucks. Likewise, you not showing…

— Jarod Kintz

There was a lot of work that people don't know about that I did to establish my villain persona. There were a…

— Roddy Piper

When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My…

— Alex Goot

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student.…

— Dawn Angelique

My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this…

— Garry Marshall

“Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling…

— Charlie Kaufman

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

— Sam Tsui

“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”

— Ivor W. Hartmann

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

— Alice Mattison

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

— Elif Batuman

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

— Paul Rust

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

— Rob Reiner

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

— Christopher Markus

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.”

— Paige Skyler

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

“Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai”

— Mar Mai

“The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.”

— Sebastyne Young