Writing Quotes

• I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Sportsmanship

• The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Children
  • Criticism
  • Worst

• Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Writing
  • Learning

• I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Writing
  • Sitting
  • Buddy

• When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Wise

• In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

  

  John Kricfalusi
  • Writing
  • Today

• I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

  

  John Tavener
  • Life
  • Together
  • Faith

• I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Help

• I'm always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.

  

  Neymar
  • History
  • Happy
  • Hope

• Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Amazing

• There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Life
  • Time
  • Lazy

• I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Song
  • Sound
  • Certain

• My husband has no desire to work with me; don't get it twisted. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. But, that being said, I did have the story credit on 'Blades of Glory,' and writing is something that I've always been interested in pursuing more.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Desire

• When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Art
  • Artist

• I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Writing
  • Reading

• If I'm writing with or for someone else, it just has to feel true and real for them. It has to feel like they're being honest. If it's for myself, it's the same thing. It has to be something I can mean when I say it.

  

  Finneas
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Honest

• If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Intellectual

• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Night

• Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

  

  William Cowper
  • War
  • History
  • Hero

• When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Writing

• Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Writing
  • Water
  • Sharks

• Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

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