Writing Quotes

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  

  Samuel McChord Crothers
  • Writing
  • Tired
  • Poet

• I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Writing

• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Guy
  • Death
  • Amazing

• What happens on 'Mad Men' in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it's superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it's become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it's a beautiful show to look at.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Mad

• I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Difference
  • Fiction
  • Academic

• I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Morning

• There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Home
  • Cooking

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Door
  • Habit
  • Uncle

• I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Live
  • Mind

• I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Writing

• As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

  

  Eric Church
  • Writing

• Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Important
  • Long
  • Character

• I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Writing
  • Poverty

• I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!

  

  Julia Natasha Stone Angus & Julia Stone
  • Different
  • Book
  • Dream

• It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Writing

• My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Writing
  • Superhero

• It's so difficult writing about living people.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People
  • Writing

• Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Produce

• People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• Writing music is just like writing a book.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Book

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