Writing Quotes

• Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

  

  Angela Rye
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Play
  • Band
  • Guitar

• My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  

  John Irving
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Animal

• To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Feeling

• If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Writing
  • American

• I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Library

• I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Different
  • Writing

• Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

  

  Bernie Leadon The Eagles
  • Writing
  • Moving

• Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

  

  John Berger
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • Good
  • Writing

• You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Writing
  • Mad

• Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

  

  Jess Walter
  • World
  • Writing
  • Political

• Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Long
  • Writing

• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Rhythm
  • Plot

• I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Job

• I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Self

• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  

  Dave Barry
  • People
  • Religious
  • Risk

• I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Fun

• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

  

  Jay Asher
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people like Brit Marling getting things done, it lets me know that it's possible. It basically just tells me, 'Dude, get to work!' For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

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