Writing Quotes
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It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
Bill Medley
The Righteous Brothers
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Garth Nix
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I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
Maren Morris
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Foster Friess
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway
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When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.
Janet Evanovich
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I started writing songs at age 15.
Vince Clarke
Depeche Mode
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When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.
Chuck Klosterman
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon
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I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.
David Newman
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard
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I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.
P. L. Travers
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
Sappho
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
Octavia Spencer
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
Cary Fukunaga
