Writing Quotes

• Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

  

  Andrew Ripp
  • Singing
  • Hard
  • Sides

• When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Book

• My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

  

  Shaun Cassidy
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

  

  Michael Koryta
  • Writing
  • Process
  • I Like

• I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Writing

• The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

  

  Jeffery Deaver
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Study

• We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Judgment

• Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Direct

• It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Greatest

• A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Couple
  • Manage
  • Thousand

• What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.

  

  Nick Heyward
  • Joy
  • Creative
  • Motivated

• I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

  

  Nell Zink
  • Writing
  • Job

• I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Issues

• I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer.

  

  Njena Surae Jarvis
  • Thinking
  • Decision
  • Challenges

• The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • World
  • Trying
  • Feelings

• Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing

• I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • School
  • Dream

• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Respect
  • Fiction
  • Lifetime

• Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time... the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

  

  Ann Reed
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hard

• It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  

  Katy Lederer
  • Good
  • Book
  • Sentences

• I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mother

• [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

  

  Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Happy
  • Wonderful
  • Songwriting

• I want to write music that will outlive me.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Music
  • Writing

• Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Writing
  • Hidden
  • Verses

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