Quotes and Sayings About Writing

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
-- Adele

#Song #Writing #Heart

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
-- Adele

#Breakup #Real #Writing

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Writing #Three #Diaries

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
-- Adora Svitak

#Writing #Ideas #Flow

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
-- Adrian Belew

#Song #Writing #Guitar

If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.
-- Adrian Chiles

#Writing #Stills

I don't like writing essays or theory.
-- Adrian Mitchell

#Writing #Writing Essays #Theory

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Book #Reading #Writing

But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Emotional #Grandparent

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Spiritual #Writing #Giving

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Jobs #Writing #World

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Silence #Sound

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Thinking #Hands

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Character #World

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Smart #Writing

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Dream #Memories #Writing

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Writing #Voice #Stones

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Writing

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Writing #White #History

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?
-- Adrienne Rich

#Freedom #War #Writing

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
-- Agatha Christie

#Work #Writing #Commitment

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
-- Agatha Christie

#New York #Writing #Cities

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #Letters #Originality

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #Typewriters #Tables

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #Autobiography #Sooner Or Later

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #People #Lucky

The world is full of paper, write to me
-- Agha Shahid Ali

#Writing #World #Paper

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Writing #Winning

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
-- Agnes Denes

#Art #Writing #Thinking

One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.
-- Agnes Denes

#Lonely #Writing #Loner