Writing Quotes
I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
V.S. NaipaulV.S. Naipaul I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CatullusCatullus I am a woman writer the last thing I am is weak.
Allie MillerAllie Miller I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks Who am I to write about love when I don’t know the very definition of it, It seems, love itself does not favor me.
JadeJade The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.
J-HopeJ-Hope Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.
Kacey MusgravesKacey Musgraves A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck Every word I write is crude and weak when it comes to conveying you how much I appreciate you.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
Roald DahlRoald Dahl Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
Anne LamottAnne Lamott The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you’ve been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it’d be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.
Ellie GouldingEllie Goulding The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it’s crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.
Charlie PuthCharlie Puth