Writing Quotes

• A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Desire
  • Literature
  • Creative

• My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Live
  • School
  • Job

• I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Writing

• If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Control

• Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Children
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Form
  • Schizophrenia

• One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Writing
  • Psychology
  • Teen

• If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of Ivy Compton-Burnett books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • Morning
  • Feelings

• There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Passion
  • Gone
  • Letters

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Writing
  • Crime
  • Greatest

• 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

• My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Son

• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

  

  Andy Weir
  • Up
  • Science
  • Technology

• If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Song
  • Fancy
  • Hey

• I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Sex

• To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Good
  • Care
  • Poet

• Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Writing

• I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

  

  Megan Amram
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

  

  Blake Jenner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Dialogue
  • Swear

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