Writing Quotes · Page 676

I make sure to write every day, even if it's a little bit.

— Dolph Ziggler

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

— Taylor Swift

“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.”

— Anthony Liccione

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

— Jasper Fforde

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

— Petra Haden

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

— PartyNextDoor

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

— Henry Rollins

Pu La's writing is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and deep.

— Nana Patekar

Only difference between writing and speaking is you can write and express your feelings even when you are alone but you can't…

— Nishan Panwar

I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much…

— Drew Magary

“Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the…

— Brian Doyle

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a…

— William Kittredge

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so…

— Richard Curtis

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

— Willa Cather

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and…

— Jess Walter

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The…

— Tea Obreht

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because…

— Gore Vidal

I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at…

— Sarah Stillman

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair,…

— Christina Hendricks

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close…

— Noah Hawley

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the…

— William Zinsser

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,…

— Simon McBurney

“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to…

— John Piper

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

— Kristin Cashore

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

— Katherine Dunn

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

— Dan Poynter

“Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!”

— Jennifer Worrell

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.

— Selena

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.”

— Clarice Lispector

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

— Mik Everett

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

— Ian Mcewan

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

— Alain de Botton

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

— Delmore Schwartz

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..”

— John Geddes

“The words must be heartfelt and come from the heart. Only then one can write amazing things.”

— Liv-Christine Hoem

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

— Don Roff

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

— Robert Kirkman