Writing Quotes

• Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Soul
  • Poetry
  • Fire

• 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 hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Waiting

• In total, as of this writing in October 2015, there have been 972 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook murders, resulting in at least 1,217 people dead and 3,509 wounded.

  

  Bill Press
  • Writing
  • Wounded
  • Resulting

• You have to stop living in order to write.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Order

• So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Book
  • Reading

• Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Time
  • Drug
  • Processors

• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Writing has never been a driving force within me.

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • Writing
  • Driving

• Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

  

  Claire Cameron
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Writing

• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Movie

• When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things-as opposed to making things up-that did not quite happen. (p.11).

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Different
  • Present
  • Angry

• The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Character
  • War

• I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Writing
  • Television
  • Grew

• What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Quality

• I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Boys
  • Slave
  • Novelists

• What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Hope

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