Writing Quotes
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
Edmund White
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I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.
Elizabeth Daily
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It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
Alison Moyet
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out....
Kingsley Amis
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I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
J. B. Priestley
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
Phillip Phillips
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
Kali Uchis
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Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
Daphne Guinness
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'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.
Jeff Kinney
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
Edward Bond
