Writing Quotes

8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things that was important to me, I always just wanted to create a song it seemed like.

William Clark Green
- Important
- Writing
- Aspect
The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause
- Truth
- Parents
- Challenge

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.

Eleanor Catton
- People
- Time
- Important
Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

Beth Harbison
- Writing
- Experience
- Lucky
Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown
- Writing
- Family
- Happens
The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Work
- Art
- Book
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Jose Saramago
- Good
- School
- Done
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

Lauren Oliver
- Real
- Book
- Fun