Writing Quotes

I’ve been writing since I was maybe seven.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

If nothing else you have inspired me to write beautiful poetry if nothing else I bring words to the table with me.

We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.

The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

It’s easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.