Writing Quotes
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
William Goldman -
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Wole Soyinka
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You can't write. That's not writing. It's scribbling. Distasteful scribbling. Why can't you write properly?
Peter Greenaway -
For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.
Jim Gaffigan -
The best writing is certainly when you are in love
Ernest Hemingway -
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare -
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.
Will Self -
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
Billy Joel
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I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.
Sandra Bullock -
The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.
Sandra Cisneros -
Writing on the road is a passion of mine.
Lee DeWyze -
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
Rick Moody -
Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
Andy Ihnatko -
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
Ben Affleck
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With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.
Miranda Cosgrove -
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
Emily Gould -
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.
Gene Luen Yang -
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster -
I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.
Sarah Kay -
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
Mary Karr
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I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.
Alice Mattison -
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
Adrian Tomine -
I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.
Scott Westerfeld