Writing Quotes
Maybe we become what we write about.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Writing saved me when my phone went silent.
Allie MillerAllie Miller Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.
KehlaniKehlani There is no story unless you’ve written it.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
Jason StathamJason Statham I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe Memories are homes that I visit, to write the ending of an incomplete story. As it forever stays constant, when people leave.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
Vikram SethVikram Seth A frozen river is not a dry one, it’s just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce I quite like American music, like The Fray – I’m a massive fan of them – and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.
Louis TomlinsonLouis Tomlinson If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
Steven WrightSteven Wright No one can touch words but words touch everyone. Our choices of words decide most of the situations we are dealing with, they have an immense power to influence and control life.
Rohit DeoraRohit Deora If I’m not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw ’em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we’ll have a unique song by the end of it.
Kacey MusgravesKacey Musgraves