There's nothing like music. It's seductive, it's all-consuming, it's emotional, it's infinitely creative... I was a singer-songwriter, not particularly talented musically [that's never stopped anyone before] but drawn to the craft of songwriting.
Jeffrey DeaverThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertMan is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E StevensonAs you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.
Emma SammsI wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. (Emblems)
Francis QuarlesI am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI really want to get into writing film music. I'm really passionate about that.
Vanessa BrownWriting songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
Gwen StefaniWhen I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water.
Clive CusslerI really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis JohnsonMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory
for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
Alan BennettSometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene FowlerI am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan BehanWriting a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen GoodmanI'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. [On the difficulties of writing - not writers block but loneliness]
Catie CurtisMost of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern BallI don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are music and football, and I have never really been good at either.
Irvine WelshThere is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice BrandeisFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpTalent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary
Jessamyn WestWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingIt took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert BenchleyOn what? [when asked if he had ever thought of writing an autobiography!]
Chris EubankThere is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
Kim GordonA prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel CrothersLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherI love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony DavisThe difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman MailerAll the rest is mere fine writing. (Art poetique)
Paul VerlaineTo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman CapoteReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis BaconIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey FarnolDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosPeople seem to be writing off England and that's a dangerous thing to do.
They have a lot of very good players and just because they haven't been going well over the last year and a bit, it doesn't mean they can't win anymore!
Andrew MehrtensWriting is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene FowlerEssentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. [on the science, or art, of writing a book]
Elizabeth GeorgeSong writing is my life and what I am about, and it's all I have ever really wanted to do.
Eddie FloydI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire BellocProgramming definitely requires a particular mindset, and normally the problem is working out what the program has to do, rather than actually writing the program once you've worked that bit out.
Paul GrahamWhen I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.
Anita DesaiI think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip LarkinWe never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
Chris LoweIf you're writing a catchphrase before you write a character, then that's not a good thing.
Catherine TateLife cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Edna FerberTelevision has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel GoldwynWriting is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul DesmondWriting is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
Andre MauroisGenerally the people out on the pitch are the ones who know how to play the game, not the people who are writing about it.
Marcus TrescothickWriting is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
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