Writing Quotes

• I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Writing
  • Jesus

• In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

  

  Peter Temple
  • Writing
  • Grief

• All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Impulse

• With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Done
  • Book
  • Depression

• I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

  

  Catullus
  • Writing
  • Youth
  • Access

• I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • American
  • Help
  • English

• Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • House
  • Night

• Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Writing
  • Script
  • Equivalent

• When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Writing

• I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you get 50 words published in 'The New Yorker,' it's more important than 50 articles in other places. So, would I love to one day write for them? I guess. But that's not my sole ambition.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • World
  • Important
  • Words

• I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Elements
  • Patterns

• Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.

  

  Achy Obejas
  • Writing
  • Audience
  • Journalism

• I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Children
  • Age
  • Small

• Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Writing
  • Misunderstood

• Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Actor
  • Changing
  • Styles

• Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Sometimes
  • Harder
  • Graduation

• Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Expression
  • Reader
  • Obscure

• I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Writing

• I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Writing

• Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Help

• I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Up
  • Home
  • Food

• I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

  

  Megan McCafferty
  • Long
  • Writing

• Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Trade
  • Letters
  • Traders

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