Writing Quotes · Page 101

I play the piano and write music.

— Anwar Robinson

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

— Anna Quindlen

There are many talented writers in Mollywood.

— Atul Kulkarni

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

— Winston Churchill

Every word written is a victory against death.

— Michel Butor

I will write with honesty and feeling.

— Ted Nicholas

A backward poet writes inverse.

— Nikhil Saluja

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none

— Anonymous

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

— Shania Twain

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

— Marjane Satrapi

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

— Sylvia Plath

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

— Dave Barry

CBx5XE Im obliged for the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Buy Oem SoftWare

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood…

— Keren Ann

When I do jokes that maybe are seen as social commentary, I research them to the nth degree. I probably do more…

— Ralphie May

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.…

— Jonathan Dee

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be…

— Bryce Courtenay

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think…

— Annie Dillard

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to…

— Patricia A. McKillip

There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I…

— Nicholson Baker

I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,…

— Miroslav Penkov

Sourav is a very positive captain. Whatever his personal form, whatever the media writes about him, he has always been strong, focused…

— Virender Sehwag

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and…

— William Saroyan

There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.…

— Sandra Cisneros

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on…

— Upton Sinclair

“I used to believe, when I was 'just' a reader, that writers, because they wrote books where truth was found, because they…

— Julian Barnes

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

— Jesse Ventura

“Edinburgh is alive with words.”

— Sara Sheridan

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

— Bruce Forsyth

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

— Glenn Howerton

“Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I write a woman's oaths in water.

— Sophocles