Writing Quotes

• The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Cool

• I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

  

  David Wilcock
  • May
  • Suffering
  • Interviews

• Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Violent Action

• You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.

  

  Jake Kasdan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Long

• I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

  

  Jessica Lowndes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Relax

• The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Up
  • Job
  • Jobs

• Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

  

  Alison Louise Kennedy
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • Writing
  • Done
  • House

• I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Music
  • Writing

• Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Writing

• I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • Perspective

• Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Women

• I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

  

  Dee Rees
  • School
  • Business
  • Career

• Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Writing

• I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Literature

• Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Writing

• Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

  

  Steve Jordan Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • Drug
  • Drink
  • Frustration

• I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Together

• You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Up
  • Style
  • Practice

• Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Feels

• It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Literature

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