Writing Quotes

• When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• Writing is like carrying a fetus.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Carrying

• I like writing historical fiction.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • Writing

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  

  James Young Styx
  • People
  • Good
  • Band

• While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • American
  • Free
  • Party

• So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Alive

• I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

  

  Jazmine Sullivan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creation

• If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Great
  • Job
  • Text

• When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Writing

• I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Charlie McDermott
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Conclusion

• Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

  

  Penny Jordan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Discipline

• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Why
  • Peace

• Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

  

  James Lapine
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Hope

• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

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