Writing Quotes

• I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Path
  • Existence

• Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Struggle

• I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Great
  • Home
  • Grandchildren

• I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Giving
  • Wish

• Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

  

  Lisel Mueller
  • Writing

• You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

  

  Jaimoe
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn’t read poetry much anyway.

  

  John Ashbery
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Exercise

• My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Practice

• It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

  

  Lauren DeStefano
  • Writing
  • Teacher

• 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

• I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as tough as it is, I get so much more out of it. It's like climbing Mt. Everest.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Weird

• On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like.

  

  David Bazan
  • Character
  • Song
  • Determine

• Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Writing
  • Fact
  • Outworn

• I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Writing
  • Moving

• 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

• I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Writing

• Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Writing

• I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Forget
  • Labour
  • Fairness

• I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • People
  • Giving
  • Kings

• I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

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