Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Marvin Hamlisch

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

Christopher Darden

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Suzanne Collins

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

Dan Brown

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Kathy Reichs

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Amanda Peet

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

Evan Williams

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Horace

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mary Karr

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

Matthew Nable

On a good day I write, all day.

Nick Flynn

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

David Javerbaum

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Lorrie Moore

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Anne Lamott

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Siri Hustvedt

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Ezra Pound