Writing Quotes

• I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Kind
  • Sleep
  • Feelings

• 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 don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Sports

• Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication.

  

  David Sax
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Easier
  • Restriction

• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Perception

• There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Reader

• Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Writing

• If your goal is to write a book for publication, rule number one is that no one ever finished a book without sitting down and getting started. Few authors get published without engaging in the daily discipline of writing, even if some days that means staring down a blank notebook or computer screen and drooling into your bag of pork rinds.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Book
  • Goal
  • Daily

• Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • People
  • America
  • Support

• Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Writing
  • Space

• Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Song
  • Independent
  • Jobs

• I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Important
  • Book
  • Harder

• I started writing in 1948 - basically.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Writing

• She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Song
  • Blonde
  • Hot

• Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Driving

• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Dumb

• I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Same

• See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

  

  Luther Vandross Chic
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Records

• 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

• What happens on 'Mad Men' in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it's superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it's become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it's a beautiful show to look at.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Mad

• 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.

  

  Jake T. Austin
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Mother

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