Writing Quotes

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

Sherman Alexie
- Tired
- Emotion
- Exhausted
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Cesare Pavese
- Poetry
- Idea
- Kindles

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

David Bowie
- Kids
- Memories
- Odd
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

Tori Kelly
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.

Ray Bradbury
- Book
- Girl
- Emotional
I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

Jeff Baena
- Time
- Writing
- Reading
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.

Teju Cole
- Writing
- Three
- Rioting