Writing Quotes

• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Door

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Heaven
  • Acting
  • Hell

• I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Writing

• When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Done
  • Wish

• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • People
  • May
  • Space

• 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

• At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Writing
  • Understanding

• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.

  

  David Roochnik
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Focus

• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Writing
  • Television
  • New

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Real
  • Career
  • Professional

• Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • Writing
  • Words

• I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• 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 got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Start

• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing

• If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Writing

• It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.

  

  Blake Crouch
  • Up
  • Brother
  • Scary

• Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Time
  • Writing

• I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Writing

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