Writing Quotes - page 5

My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. (Dolly Parton)

To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.

Samuel Johnson

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Henry Miller

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.'

Ben Jonson

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Marshall McLuhan

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises the baby makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Steven Wright

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

Willie Nelson

Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. (Joseph Addison)

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Joseph Addison

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

P. G. Wodehouse

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

Elliott Smith

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Beatrix Potter

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.

Cole Porter

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anaïs Nin

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Kingsley Amis

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good. (Thomas à Kempis)

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Willa Cather

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

Jane Jacobs

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