Writing Quotes

I'm constantly writing.

— Gza

I write from my stomach.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

“I write what I like”

— Steve Biko

“I want be a writer”

— Anne Frank

“Ink, a Drug.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward

Writing is hard work.

— William Zinsser

I am not a writer.

— Anonymous

“Writing is a temporal form of creating forever.”

— Jonathan Heatt

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Three words for a writer: Make me care.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Don't write to impress. Write to inspire.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

I write what I want to write.

— Jorja Smith

I see but one rule: to be clear.

— Stendhal

I use Twitter as a writing tool a lot.

— Jaboukie Young-White

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

— Mark Twain

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

— Maureen Corrigan

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

— Miguel

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

— Benjamin Franklin

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

— Harlan Coben

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like…

— Kate Zambreno

“I think you can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose, but surely in the final analysis one thing matters above…

— Jamie Holoran

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and…

— Joel Bakan

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I…

— Jackie Collins

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

— Stephen L. Carter

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…

— William T. Vollmann

Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even…

— Jennifer Gilmore

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing…

— J. M. Coetzee

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

“Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a part of me was…

— David Foster Wallace

“Rosalind Porter: As a writer, how important do you feel it is to engage with the digital revolution? Margaret Atwood: I don’t…

— Margaret Atwood

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware…

— Matt Redman

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.…

— George Lucas