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

• I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Beginning

• Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Writing
  • Window
  • Tearing

• Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Help

• 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

• The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing

• The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

  

  James Lasdun
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Light

• If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' in the living room. Then, I guess, just by the grace of God I started writing songs, and somebody happened to like them.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • God
  • Home
  • Singing

• I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Writing
  • Art

• With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

  

  John Ridley
  • Time
  • Writing

• You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Different
  • Song
  • Prose

• You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • High
  • Age

• Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

  

  Carol Windley
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Thoughts

• My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Writing

• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Book
  • Distance

• I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Writing
  • Help
  • Feeling

• If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Song
  • Hours
  • Jennifer

• The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

  

  James Fenton
  • Writing

• There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Dog
  • Boys
  • Novel

• Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Style

• Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Age
  • Kind
  • Melody

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