Top 100 Writing With Quotes
#1. You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann
#2. I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#3. trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right
-the idea shrinking is hereditary
Rupi Kaur
#4. I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Khaled Hosseini
#5. That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.
Cynthia Weil
#6. In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
#7. There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.
Mindy Kaling
#8. Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson ... Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
Sydney J. Harris
#9. I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Duane Michals
#10. Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.
Thomas King
#11. I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen
#12. There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.
Corey Taylor
#13. When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.
Ingrid Michaelson
#14. I can get so caught up in talking about writing with Bronte that I don't get any actual writing done.
Stephanie Morrill
#15. When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
Billy Sherwood
#16. I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
Randy Houser
#17. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
Virginia Woolf
#18. Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.
Mike Barnicle
#19. I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other, and that's really important for co-writing. I think both of us bring different things to each song.
Jason Reeves
#20. The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
Gore Vidal
#21. Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.
Courtney Barnett
#22. Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine's Day.
Fennel Hudson
#23. What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. With acting you're really beholden to everyone else.
Leigh Whannell
#24. For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
Suzy Bogguss
#25. A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.
Lucius Shepard
#26. I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.
Chuck Ragan
#27. I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
Haruki Murakami
#28. I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
Toby Jones
#29. Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
David Hackworth
#30. If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
Bonnie McKee
#31. You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.
Ben Gibbard
#32. I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.
Michael McMillian
#33. When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#34. Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.
Lauren Mayberry
#35. If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.
Joe Haldeman
#37. It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.
Katherine Rundell
#38. I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
Beth Orton
#39. Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips
from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#40. I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
Lisa Loeb
#41. Glory, causes, careers, and love mean nothing on an empty stomach. Because of food, I lost my self-respect; because of food, I suffered the humiliation of a lowly cur; and because of food I took up creative writing, with a vengeance.
Mo Yan
#42. I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
Joe Jonas
#43. I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.
Melissa Rosenberg
#44. It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.
Donnie Fritts
#46. I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick Dennis
#47. For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
David Ayer
#48. Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce.
Steven Pinker
#49. I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.
Aldous Huxley
#50. Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
Terri Windling
#51. 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
George R R Martin
#52. I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#54. I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
Bryan Ferry
#55. The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I'm also writing with a lot of discipline on the side.
Karan Bajaj
#56. I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.
Austin Mahone
#57. I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
#58. Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.
Akansh Malik
#59. If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.
Natalie Goldberg
#60. Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.
Harold Innis
#61. Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
Jewel
#62. There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
Amity Gaige
#63. Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#64. The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light ...
Philippe Halsman
#65. Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Henry Ward Beecher
#66. Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
E.B. White
#68. ...teaching is like playing jazz. Even if you perform the same number over and over, it never comes out the same twice, and you don't know exactly how it will sound until you hear it. Teaching is like writing with your voice
Earl R. Babbie
#69. Never reward writing with not writing. Rewarding writing by abandoning your schedule is like rewarding yourself for quitting smoking by having a cigarette.
Paul J. Silvia
#70. Obviously I love writing with Katy [Pery], I feel like we're the same person when we write together. Even though we fight a lot, we fight over every line and we pull each other's hair and we cat-fight all the time, it's always worth it in the end.
Bonnie McKee
#71. 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 Musgraves
#72. Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
Annie Jacobsen
#73. I like sitting and writing with my buddies.
Adam Sandler
#74. I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
Charlie Puth
#75. Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.
Jon Foreman
#76. What it means to serve Him. I am writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will
Katie J. Davis
#77. I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.
Erik Hassle
#78. I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy
Groucho Marx
#79. Gavin said that writing novels with a PC was supposed to be easier than writing with a typewriter and bond paper, or with a pen and foolscap, or with a chisel and a granite obelisk imported from Greece. I shook my head with pity as he related this canard to me.
Gary Reilly
#80. I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade
#81. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
Holly Lisle
#82. I am writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will be encouraged that God still uses flawed human beings to change the world. And if He can use me, He can use you.
Katie J. Davis
#83. About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?"
"I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.
Harper Lee
#84. The word 'photography' literally means "writing with light.
Mary E. Foster
#85. I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
Jose Saramago
#86. Writing with one pencil in hand is so much easier than the choosing of 114 buttons to press in series for an extended period of time.
Robert N. Franz
#87. I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Billy Sherwood
#88. Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.
Peter Elbow
#89. When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#90. Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
John Geddes
#91. Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.
William Zinsser
#92. I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
Anne Lamott
#93. In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.
Natalie Goldberg
#94. A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
#95. Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
Cynthia Weil
#96. How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.
Donald Murray
#97. We like writing with each other; it's fun.
Shawn Wayans
#98. A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.
St. Lucia
#99. Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
Alain De Botton
#100. I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.
Paddy Considine
