Writing Quotes

• You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Fall

• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Ideas
  • Structure
  • Phrases

• I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Memories

• In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

  

  Evelyn Lau
  • Success
  • Books
  • Considered

• I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Ignorance
  • Experiments
  • Brushes

• Writers need each other.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Needs

• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Feels
  • Credit
  • Jokes

• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Writing
  • Chance
  • Horror

• I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Writing
  • School
  • Kids

• There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

  

  Morley Callaghan
  • Writing
  • Traits

• There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Helpful

• I write for myself things that I've gone through.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Gone

• I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

  

  Cathy Horyn
  • Writing

• I have a writing addiction.

  

  Prince
  • Writing
  • Addiction

• What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Today
  • Church
  • Singing

• You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Writing
  • Imagine

• Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• 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

• 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

• Write what you love and love what you write.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing

• Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Involved

• Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Garden

• Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Universe
  • Enough
  • Looks

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