Writing Quotes

• What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  

  Katy Lederer
  • Successful
  • Sentences
  • Stamina

• If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Taken

• Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility
  • Dangerous

• When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Studio

• 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
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.

  

  Kathryn Tucker Windham
  • People
  • School
  • Teacher

• If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Remembered

• The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

  

  Ari Hest
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Touring

• I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Song

• The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

  

  William Goldman
  • Writing
  • Earth

• And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Laughter

• I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

  

  Suzanne Brockmann
  • Writing
  • Heroines
  • Self-confident

• I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hope

• For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Writing
  • Book

• If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Writing
  • Need
  • Commitments

• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Interesting

• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  

  Michiko Kakutani
  • Vision
  • Logic
  • Philosophical

• What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

  

  Catullus
  • Women
  • Running
  • Water

• TODAY can be a healthy unusual day for you-and for others-if you take time to give someone a smile . . . to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . . ..to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . . to share a portion of your material possessions with others.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Kindness
  • Gratitude
  • Encouragement

• Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • Country
  • Together
  • Guy

• The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Voice

• A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

  

  Carolyn Forche
  • Pieces
  • Publish
  • Finest

• The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

  

  Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Trouble
  • Guidance
  • Uniforms

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