Successful Writing Quotes (page 2)

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• success
• emotional
• writing

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. Enya

• philosophy
• believe
• true

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. Kim Elizabeth

• game
• writing
• success

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. Danny Elfman

• success
• writing
• tries

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful. Paula Danziger

• hard work
• writing
• hard

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. Countee Cullen

• success
• reading
• writing

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. Laurell K. Hamilton

• book
• great
• success

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. Nicholas Sparks

• success
• writing
• successful

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. Hugh Lofting

• success
• song
• writing

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. Lisa Loeb

• song
• black
• success

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. Michael Buble

• greatness
• work
• learning

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college. Melissa Rosenberg

• powerful
• success
• chance

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Anne Rice

• writing
• hard work
• success

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work. Enrique Iglesias