Quotes of: Writing Keyword

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Tanith Lee

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Taiye Selasi

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Tom Stoppard

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

Martin Amis

I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.

Michael Ian Black

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Margaret Mitchell

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Rainbow Rowell

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Mike Rutherford

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Reeve Carney

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Elmore Leonard

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

David Ogilvy

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

Jaime Lerner

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Michael Schiavo

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

J. K. Rowling

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

Jo Nesbo

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

Kris Allen

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Ray Charles

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

R. Kelly

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

Edmund White