Writing Quotes

• Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

  

  Aidan Chambers
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Writing

• I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Science
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Guitar

• I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Writing

• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Listening
  • Walking
  • Discipline

• I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Writing
  • Law

• I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Respect
  • Focus

• The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Dream

• I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

  

  James Lapine
  • Writing

• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Writing
  • Color

• I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Music
  • Boat
  • Encouraging

• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Years
  • First

• I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Writing

• I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

  

  Adele
  • Done
  • Record
  • Bitter

• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Easy

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Book
  • Good Things

• I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Theatre

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Wife
  • Hatred

• Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • God
  • Writing
  • Faith

• When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Writing

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