Writing Quotes · Page 686

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

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

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

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing…

— Billy Joel

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't…

— George Saunders

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out…

— Yungblud

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had…

— Anonymous

I've always been a little more narrative, a little more linear, a little more direct. People instantly want to classify that as…

— Taylor Goldsmith

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly…

— Joyce Carol Oates

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes…

— Riki Lindhome

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of…

— Dick Van Dyke

“The writer, without softening his vision, is obliged to capture or conjure readers. And this means any kind of reader. It means…

— Anonymous

I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost…

— Jack Kerouac

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly… You are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I've set the vast majority of my books in New England because that's where I live. I love this part of the…

— Judith Arnold

I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In those days, long before, a view over the rooftops of Paris was an unaffordable luxury. The apartment he had shared with…

— Graham Robb

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

— Stephen King

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

— Willie Nelson

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

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

— Max L. Phillips