Writing Quotes

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Writing

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.

  

  John Rampton
  • Writing

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Good
  • Writing

• My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Music
  • Men
  • She

• I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Work
  • Love
  • Home

• When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Time
  • Different
  • Heart

• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Angry

• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Wrestling

• When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Children
  • School
  • Science

• Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Thought
  • Lyrics

• I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Writing
  • Church

• I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

  

  Carole King
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

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

  

  Sting The Police
  • Writing

• People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • People
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

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