Writing Quotes

• I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Today

• I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • History
  • Science
  • College

• When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Great
  • Different
  • Band

• I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • Life
  • Parents
  • College

• I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Long
  • Book
  • Words

• When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.

  

  Claire Patricia Grogan Altered Images
  • Real
  • Song
  • Purpose

• I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Control

• I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• For me, writing something down was the only road out.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Writing
  • Road

• I'm writing all the time. I want to do this forever. I want to have a box set someday. I can't stop. The day I stop being inspired to write songs, I'll go sit on the beach - until I become inspired again.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Forever

• I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

  

  Jeffery Deaver
  • Together
  • Words
  • Challenge

• By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • School
  • High
  • English

• I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • Kids
  • Car
  • Cold

• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

  

  James Joyce
  • Why
  • Reading
  • English

• I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Time
  • Book
  • Husband

• One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Expectation

• Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Time
  • Writing

• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • English
  • Tool

• I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Writing

• I've always liked new writing.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Writing
  • Always
  • New

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