All Quotes

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
‐‐ M. John Harrison

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
‐‐ John Grisham

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
‐‐ Ben Schott

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
‐‐ Shane Black

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
‐‐ George Crumb

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
‐‐ Orson Scott Card

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
‐‐ Jim Rash

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
‐‐ Brit Marling

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
‐‐ Toby Keith

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
‐‐ Skylar Grey

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
‐‐ Shakira

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
‐‐ Jeff Tweedy

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.
‐‐ Sharon Van Etten

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
‐‐ Caleb Landry Jones

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
‐‐ Tom Waits

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
‐‐ Ray LaMontagne

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
‐‐ Jann Klose

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.
‐‐ Steven Curtis Chapman

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.
‐‐ Mike Love

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
‐‐ Truman Capote

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
‐‐ Avi

Writing teaches writing.
‐‐ James McBride

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

Writing that's not working for a living.
‐‐ Robert Asprin

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
‐‐ Rick Moody

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.
‐‐ Matt Hughes

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
‐‐ Marie Lu

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
‐‐ Gavin Bryars

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.
‐‐ Meg Cabot