Writing Quotes · Page 10

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

I'm a fast writer.

— Terry McMillan

“Writing is freedom.”

— Don Delillo

I love to write.

— Anonymous

Write whatever you like!

— Seamus Heaney

I enjoy writing.

— Anonymous

“Tonight I Can Write”

— Pablo Neruda

“Writing is prayer.”

— Franz Kafka

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

— David Maraniss

I write in order to bear witness to life.

— Herta Muller

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

Socrates should have written comics.

— Mark Waid

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

— Kevin Patterson

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

— Kathy Acker

To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

— Koushun Takami

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

— Horace

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

— Jeff Hanneman

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Anonymous

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

— Max Cavalera

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

— George M. Cohan

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

— Harold Brodkey

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

— William Gibson

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

— Gustav Klimt

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work…

— Tom Hodgkinson

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

— Ernest Hemingway

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or…

— Robert Hilburn

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his…

— Raymond Chandler

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen…

— William S. Burroughs

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

— Peter O'Toole

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

— Matt Berninger

Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy…

— Merrill Markoe

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you…

— Lily King

“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in…

— Quintilian

In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you…

— Sylvester Stallone

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.…

— Theodora Goss

When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a…

— Chris Thomas King

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or…

— Markus Zusak

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his…

— Dean Koontz