Writing Quotes · Page 76

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

— Lauren Alaina

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

“Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.”

— Wesley McNair

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

— Anonymous

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

— Richard O'Brien

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

— Joshua Ferris

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

“Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.”

— Aleks Canard

“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

— Laura Benanti

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

— Anthony Doerr

“God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for…

— Richard Matheson

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with…

— Taraji P. Henson

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and…

— Nathan Englander

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in…

— Ann Patchett

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light…

— Katherine Mansfield

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but…

— Jane Smiley

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a…

— Richard Price

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to…

— Hari Kunzru

Now, I try not to read gossip as a rule. But the other day, a website ran an article with a picture…

— Ellen Page

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I…

— Chris Rock

“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the…

— Tom Hiddleston

I used to write little rhyming words on the paper. I'd start rapping them at home, when I'd finish my homework. I…

— Marvin Bagley III

A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer…

— Ben H. Winters

People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but…

— David Means

“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have…

— Gideon Defoe

“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

— Thomas Lux

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

You must do what you say you do.

— Rudolfo Anaya Poet & Writer

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Never write a letter while you are angry.

— Jimi Hendrix