Writing Quotes

• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Brain
  • Choices
  • Blood

• In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

  

  Peter Temple
  • Strong
  • Moving
  • Picture

• I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Science
  • Dad
  • Poetry

• Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

  

  David O. Selznick
  • Writing

• When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

  

  Melanie Mayron
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Teenager

• Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Practice

• Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • People
  • May
  • She

• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

  

  Albert Maltz
  • Time
  • Remember
  • College

• I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

  

  Jaimoe
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• I spend most of my time writing.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Writing

• The first job I had with what you might call human dignity, meaning with an office of my own and a bit of self-determination, was in technical writing, and only after I moved to Tel Aviv, where being a native English speaker is a meal ticket.

  

  Nell Zink
  • Job
  • English
  • Determination

• I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Integrity

• It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Control

• I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Why
  • Song
  • Knows

• And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces until we get kind of sick of it and then writing pieces that get more sprawling and experimental and explore in different directions.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Different
  • Think
  • Explore

• I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people will want to go in and get really into the lyrics. I hope there are different corners to them, with lots of levels-without sounding pretentious.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Writing
  • Proud
  • Lyrics

• Writing is essentially an internal process.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Writing

• You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Thinker
  • Good Writers

• When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Strong

• No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Value

• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Time
  • Good
  • Science

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