Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

Kenneth Lonergan

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

Amit Bhatia

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Ava DuVernay

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Alex Flinn

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

Alan Garner

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.

Antonia Perdu

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Ashley Scott

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Love

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned

Life

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

Life

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

William Saroyan

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

Zack Snyder

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Ben Fountain

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Nicola Cornick

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...

The Golden Notebook

I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of Kem, for I am weary of gods, nor to the glory of the Pharaohs, for I am weary of their deeds. I write neither from fear nor from ...

Unknown

Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words h...

Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an award...

Joy Williams