"Writing" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Don Marquis

Reading

Want

Writing

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Katherine Mansfield

Nothing

Writing

Would 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.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Barry Mann

First

Writing

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

Barry Mann

Writing

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.