Writing Quotes · Page 963

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

— Denise Duhamel

I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a…

— Tobias Forge

“My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all,…

— Joseph Conrad

“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words…

— Garry Fitchett

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I…

— CMAT

I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

— Sue Perkins

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the…

— Philip Roth

“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm…

— Richard Rodriguez

I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up…

— Francis Levy

“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the…

— Robin Oliveira

The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand.…

— Frances Mayes

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion…

— George Eliot

I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I…

— Stuart Adamson

Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew…

— Eusebius

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to…

— John Steinbeck

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every…

— Paul Auster

Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,…

— Jan Struther

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and…

— Lynne Truss

“An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.”

— Fierce Dolan

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough,…

— Min Jin Lee

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

— Anne-Marie

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Vātsyāyana’s famous textbook of erotics, the Kāma-sūtra, lists secret writing as one of the 64 arts, or yogas, that women should know…

— David Kahn

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor…

— Katie Dippold

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

— Al Pacino

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it…

— Carol Higgins Clark

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

— C. E. M. Joad

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.…

— David Byrne

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they…

— Rakim

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects…

— Bill Bryson

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless…

— Lukas Foss

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about…

— Bette Davis