Personal Writing Quotes: top 82 famous quotes about Personal Writing

Personal Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately. — Meghan Daum

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it. — Laurie Foos

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them. — Patterson Hood

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel. — Shooter Jennings

I think writing is a much more personal thing. — Patrick Stump

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day. — Amity Gaige

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them. — Adele

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs. — Noel Gallagher

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. — Annie Dillard

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. — John C. Hawkes

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated. — Woody Allen

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry is a connection to a change within you. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. — Mark Hoppus

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. — Suzanne Vega

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. — Alain De Botton

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. — Kate Zambreno

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I've always loved the writing of Aaron Sorkin. He cleverly intersperses big issues alongside personal relationships. — Rupert Evans

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. — Erykah Badu

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow. — Whitaker Chambers

Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow bored of them. — Jack Tate

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught. — Parnell Hall

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. — Jen Knox

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book. — Anonymous

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing. — Julia Cameron

My life on earth is personal journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. — William Carlos Williams

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing ... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking. — David Longstreth

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one. — Fan Bingbing

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain De Botton

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television. — Caitlin Doughty

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life. — Ariel Winter

The challenge of the writer is to transform - artistically and imaginatively - a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story. — Hillel F. Damron

Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having them. — Ruth Peterman

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed. — Julia Stone

(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word). — Philip Roth

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song. — Sammy Cahn

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing. — Martha Wainwright

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it. — Vint Cerf

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher. — Cass McCombs

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. — Julian Barnes

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest. — Sara Sheridan

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement. — John Patrick Hickey

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — Michael Pollan

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs. — Orianthi

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age. — Max Hawthorne

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. — Henri Nouwen

Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. — Deepak Burfiwala

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward. — Anne Tyler

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew. — Anna White

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse. — Egerton Brydges

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs. — Shania Twain

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought. — Anthony Kiedis

Envy won't make you a better poet. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having. — Corey Smith

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

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

Writing is the most personal form of prayer. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me. — Steve Martin

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. — Elon Musk

Reflections, Musings and reviewing personal experiences through different angles of light... What is inside us is out there as well. (Zoltan Galos) — Z.J. Galos

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions. — Harry Styles