Writing Quotes

• A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Vision

• I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Leaving

• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Art
  • Past
  • Moments

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Genius

• 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

• Good directing is good writing and good casting.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Writing
  • Casting

• I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Writing

• Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Female

• Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Writing
  • Secret

• Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reality

• I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Art
  • Together
  • Mean

• It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Effort

• I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoying

• I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

  

  William Golding
  • Writing
  • Book

• I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Kind

• 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

• You fail only if you stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing

• You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Style
  • Wonderful
  • Meaningful

• It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Community

• Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Song

• I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Truthful

• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fit

• I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Character
  • Book
  • Fun

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