Writing Quotes

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Reading

• When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Author

• I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Writing
  • Energy

• If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Writing

• I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • Great
  • Drama

• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Music
  • She
  • Song

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Writing
  • Used

• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Fear
  • Scary
  • Page

• The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.

  

  Piper Laurie
  • Writing
  • Book

• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Other

• One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Deep

• I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Writing

• I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Children
  • American
  • City

• I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Small
  • Inspired
  • Lonely

• I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Writing
  • Destiny
  • Search

• To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

  

  Doug Jones
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Stress

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Baby

• In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.

  

  David Bergen
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Reading

• If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Own

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Truth

• Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • Brain

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