Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Cormac McCarthy

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Connie Nielsen

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

Conor Oberst

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.

Conor Oberst

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Chuck Palahniuk

My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves

Christopher Poindexter

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

Charlotte Rampling

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Christina Romer

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

Cecily Strong

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

Curt Schilling

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Christopher Stocking

Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

Himmilicious

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

Helen Oyeyemi

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

Harvey Pekar

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Henry Rollins

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Herman Wouk

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

H.G. Wells

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Iain Banks

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Iris Dement