Writing Quotes

• I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

  

  Lion Feuchtwanger
  • Writing
  • History

• I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Blood
  • Aids
  • Hotel

• I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • Writing

• Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Song
  • Care
  • Musician

• I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Dark

• Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Writing

• I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.

  

  Don McLean
  • Live
  • School
  • Together

• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

  

  John Pilger
  • Writing
  • Reality

• As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Writing

• I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

  

  Bram Cohen
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Team

• It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

  

  David Sylvian
  • Writing

• If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • America
  • Poverty

• I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Writing
  • Learning

• For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Pain

• I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • School
  • Remember
  • Teacher

• The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Relax

• This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

  

  John Milton
  • Myself
  • Manner
  • Inferior

• The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Future

• Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Collaboration
  • Stranger

• They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Said

• The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Different
  • Long
  • Book

• It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Writing

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