Writing Quotes

• You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Artist

• Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Good
  • Writing

• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
  • Done
  • House

• When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Writing

• I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

  

  James Ellroy
  • Writing
  • Career

• I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Writing

• If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Way
  • Fiction
  • Statements

• 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

• 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

• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Fame
  • Prose
  • Verses

• Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Writing

• Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Important
  • Writing

• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Long
  • Lonely

• You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

  

  James St. James
  • Writing

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

  

  Jim Cole
  • Writing

• 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

• Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • Work
  • Benefits
  • Content

• In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Home
  • Food
  • Practice

• Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Good
  • Women
  • Art

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