Writing Quotes · Page 108

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Books in your head help no one.

— Sam Horn

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

— Jonas Eriksson

I started writing music around 20 years old.

— J.I.D

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

History is written by the victor

— Anonymous

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

I write music with an exclamation point!

— Richard Wagner

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

— Jennifer Egan

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

— Abi Morgan

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

— Jean Smart

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

— Ben Lerner

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

— Jeanette Winterson

Write him off quick. I think that's the end of him, really. He's gone.

— Nick Faldo

I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

— Laura Harrier

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those…

— Bruce Vilanch

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.…

— Len Wein

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine…

— Mariah Carey

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about…

— Zal Batmanglij

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some…

— Paula Abdul

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going…

— T.M. McNally

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible.…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play…

— Bob Marley

“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane…

— Richard C. Wydick

“The power of a writer... Jack's Theory. You may say what you will about me, though in a little while no one…

— Jack Kingsman

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you…

— Jami Attenberg

The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking…

— George Saunders

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were…

— James Wolcott

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano,

— Norah Jones

I never took a writing class.

— George Pelecanos

I'm an introverted sort of writer.

— Will Kimbrough

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

— William Saroyan

“I write to right the wrongs of reality.”

— Lara Nance

“Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz