Quotes of: I-write Keyword

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Billy Joel

I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.

Bob Seger

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Satyajit Ray

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

William Jackson

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

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Gloria Vanderbilt

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

I, the Supreme

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

The Little Silkworm

When it comes to Twitter tweets I try to write things that are brilliant or sweet

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen

I want my writing to be as smooth as drinking a glass of water—pool water, with piss in it.

This Book Has No Title

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

Garth Ennis

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

Hilary Mantel

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

H. L. Mencken

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Leonard Cohen

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Lewis Carroll

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Natalie Merchant