Writing Quotes

• Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Time
  • Job
  • Poetry

• Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

  

  China Mieville
  • Writing

• I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Interesting
  • Painting
  • Photography

• Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

  

  George Packer
  • Writing
  • Country
  • America

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Literature

• I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

  

  John Cale
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Reading

• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Writing
  • Art

• I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Acting

• I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!

  

  Julia Natasha Stone Angus & Julia Stone
  • Different
  • Book
  • Dream

• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • School

• It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

  

  Jascha Heifetz
  • Writing

• I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Writing
  • Night

• It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Long
  • Writing

• 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

• You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Fake

• Writing is inherently scary.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Writing
  • Scary

• Writing is still on my slate.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Writing

• I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Introduction

• I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Writing
  • Small

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