Writing Quotes · Page 863

“Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time. “Have”

— Anne Bishop

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background…

— Julia Holter

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when…

— Don Marquis

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages…

— Anne Fadiman

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the…

— George Saunders

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is…

— Rebecca Miller

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering…

— Justin Cronin

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I…

— Vera Nazarian

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for…

— Martha Wainwright

You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I…

— Garance Dore

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm…

— Jonathan Lethem

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I…

— Athol Fugard

Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had…

— Anonymous

My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long…

— Alex Garland

I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for…

— Luke Temple

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a…

— Janet Fitch

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14…

— Avi

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

I didn't publish my book until I was 37. So the ability to pay my bills, pay my rent, make a life…

— Leigh Bardugo

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

— Charles XII of Sweden

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

— W. H. Auden

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting…

— Megan McKenna

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to…

— Avi

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

— Richard Armour

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be…

— Max Reger

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain…

— Hans Arp

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts.…

— Ruskin Bond

Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath.

— Needa Muy

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and…

— Ray McKinnon

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation…

— Oliver

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do…

— Travis Scott

There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to…

— Lucy Dacus

“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history,…

— Sara Sheridan

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems…

— Sylvia Plath

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

— Zakk Wylde