Writing Quotes

• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

  

  David Ives
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Comedy

• This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Writing
  • Soul

• Every actor just wants good writing.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Good
  • Writing

• Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • School
  • Language
  • Christ

• The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Song

• I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Persons
  • Pieces
  • Memoir

• I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Strange
  • Point
  • Novel

• If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

  

  Darren Star
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Morning

• Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Writing

• An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

  

  J. E. Buckrose
  • People
  • May
  • Author

• I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Remember
  • Practice
  • Comforting

• My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Father

• There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Song
  • Difficult
  • Jokes

• What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Writing

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Passion

• I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Time
  • Real
  • School

• When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Bible
  • Despair

• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Prose
  • Delicious

• The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing

• If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Inspired

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