I really want to get into writing film music. I'm really passionate about that.
Vanessa BrownAs 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 was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
Alex ParksEssentially 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 GeorgeWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette MidlerWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonWould you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine MansfieldPeople 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 MehrtensEven now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.
Michael ParkinsonI don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill BrysonThe 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 MailerWriting 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 MauroisDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosThere is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice BrandeisI wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it.
Jenny MarxWriting is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio EstevezWriting books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman MailerLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinWe 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 LoweTelevision has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel GoldwynNo machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. [not at the time of writing anyhow Louis, who knows what the future will bring!]
Louis GerstnerI love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony DavisWhat a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz CarpenterAlmost all writing is an act of discovery for me.
Joseph EpsteinWriting is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul DesmondThere 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 GordonIf a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest HemingwayA life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI 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 BurnettWriting's much the same at any age - sticking one's head out of the trench to be shot at, the better to catch some butterfly.
Fay WeldonMy writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest HemingwayI will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again [after Harry Potter]
J K RowlingShake[speare] was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H C BunnerThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertI always did my best in writing to Santa Claus, but I never thought of writing as something you did for a profession.
Dee BrownOrwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John PilgerThe main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
Margaret AtwoodOn what? [when asked if he had ever thought of writing an autobiography!]
Chris EubankWriting, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence SterneEver since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.
Rob ThomasOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias CanettiNever be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas A KempisMy ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais NinThere is something very therapeutic about a piece of writing, many will tell you it is a quite cathartic experience.
James HoustonI'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 CurtisThere are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W Somerset MaughamFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpTo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
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