Writing Quotes
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.
Banksy
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When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.
Kiersey Clemons
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Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
Louise Mensch
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When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.
M. Ward
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
Aaron Belz
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I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.
T. C. Boyle
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
Tom Rachman
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I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.
Ne-Yo
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It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
Neil Jordan
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
Anne Enright
