Writing Quotes

• I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Continuing

• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Amazing

• Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

  

  Shakira
  • Writing
  • Heart

• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Zenith

• Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • Writing

• I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

  

  Denise Mina
  • World
  • Children
  • Fun

• The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Death

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Luck

• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Dying

• I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Fall
  • Arms
  • Silver

• I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • English

• In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Up
  • Together
  • Career

• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

  

  Paula McLain
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• 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

• The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Writing
  • Couple

• [Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Died
  • Proletarian

• As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Writing

• All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Personal
  • Boring
  • Orderly

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • True
  • Growth

• If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

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