Writing Quotes

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Style

• I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Writing

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • Guy
  • Night

• Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

  

  Chris Cubas
  • Writing

• From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Writing
  • Money

• Writing music is just like writing a book.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Book

• As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Writing
  • Cookbook

• I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Character
  • Career
  • Song

• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Practice
  • Students
  • Schedule

• Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

  

  Jeffrey Brown
  • Up
  • Writing

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Song
  • Focus

• For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Process
  • Part
  • Structural

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Writer

• I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.

  

  David Seltzer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Intuition

• I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Help
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

  

  James Salter
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Effort

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

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