Writing Quotes

• When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Writing

• There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Song

• The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

• I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

  

  Scott Caan
  • Writing
  • Paper

• When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.

  

  Mary E. Pearson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Song
  • Everyday
  • Interest

• I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

  

  John Irving
  • Writing

• Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • inspirational

• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Earth
  • Indirect
  • Comets

• In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

  

  Clinton Sparks
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

  

  Matthew Nable
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

  

  Neil Burger
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Together
  • Song

• The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Time
  • Children
  • Baby

• I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

  

  George Murray
  • Writing

• As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Moving
  • Struggle
  • Realizing

• I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Great
  • Words
  • Photography

• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Writing

• Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Dirty

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