Writing Quotes

• I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Time
  • Writing

• I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • School
  • Heart

• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • People
  • Together
  • Feeling

• I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Important
  • Support
  • Creative

• For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Good
  • Weird

• Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Car

• I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Music
  • School
  • High

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

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Trying
  • Mad
  • Novel

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  

  Dawn French
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• 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

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Page

• It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Singing

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

  

  Adele
  • Done
  • Record
  • Bitter

• The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

  

  David Leavitt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Boy

• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Great
  • Important
  • Hate

• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Work
  • Music
  • Free

• I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'

  

  Kay Cannon
  • People
  • Writing

• I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Enjoy
  • Exciting
  • Extraordinary

• My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing

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