Writing Quotes

• My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

  

  Dave Malloy
  • Making
  • Approach
  • Wanting

• I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

  

  Rick Bragg
  • Interviews
  • Airport
  • Longhand

• If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm, or whatever you believe in, or love.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Winning

• I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • I Think

• Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

  

  Confucius
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Ideas

• Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.

  

  Brett Young
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • People
  • Character
  • Kind

• If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Different
  • Long
  • Character

• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Business

• The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

  

  Barry Lane
  • Quality
  • Create
  • Celebrate

• The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

  

  Molly Crabapple
  • Writing
  • Sadness
  • Nicholas

• What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Writing

• I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Guy
  • Surrender
  • Hopefully

• I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

  

  Paul G. Tremblay
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Daydreamer

• It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

  

  Michael Nyqvist
  • Children
  • Book
  • Reading

• By the second half of the second century, apologies had become a popular form of Christian writing.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Writing
  • Christian
  • Apologies

• I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

  

  David Crabb
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Creative

• Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Genre

• Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Long
  • Way
  • Hours

• So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Mean

• Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Kind

• An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

  

  Dennis Covington
  • Condition
  • Recognition
  • Account

• Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Use

• I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

  

  Billy the Kid
  • Believe
  • Knows
  • Stories

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