Writing Quotes

• It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fun

• You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Learning

• It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Great
  • Together
  • Song

• It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Women
  • Children
  • Parents

• 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Good
  • Long
  • Writing

• I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Up
  • Mindset
  • Lyric

• When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Different
  • Home
  • Drawing

• Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

  

  Kevin James
  • Life
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Double

• Writing a poem is discovering.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Poem
  • Discovering

• Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

  

  SZA
  • Music
  • Writing

• I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Years

• Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

  

  Brian Keene
  • Writing

• At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing

• I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

  

  Brad Barkley
  • Writing
  • Serious

• You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

  

  Scott M. Gimple
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Kind

• I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • Writing

• When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Technology

• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.

  

  Geoff Nicholson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Everyday

• They were very persistent. They didn't stop writing or calling.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Stop
  • Calling
  • Persistent

• All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

  

  Janette Turner Hospital
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Dark

• What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Novel

• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

  

  Alison McGhee
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Personality

• It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Measure
  • Cookbooks

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