Writing Quotes

• Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Culture
  • Creative
  • Hungry

• When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Writing
  • Power

• I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Joy
  • Moments
  • Unexpected

• What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Writing
  • Mom

• I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Stories
  • Type
  • Documents

• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Literature

• I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Spiritual

• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Smart
  • University

• The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Past

• Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Writing
  • Stuff
  • Reader

• Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.

  

  John Banville
  • Writing
  • Irish

• In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

  

  Marlon James
  • Writing

• And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Reading
  • Desire
  • Clever

• My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Amazing

• Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Gaiters

• I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God and all his works! Theology is meant to be LIVED and PRAYED and SUNG! All of the great doctrinal writings of the Bible (such as Paul's epistle to the Romans) are full of praise to God and personal application to life.

  

  Wayne Grudem
  • Believe
  • Theology
  • Application

• Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Different
  • Song
  • Break

• I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Effects

• Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • World
  • Easy
  • Trouble

• Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Writing
  • Morality
  • Statement

• Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • House
  • Nice

• The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Rest
  • Ideas
  • Brain

• I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

  

  Celestine Sibley
  • People
  • Helping
  • Trouble

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