Writing Quotes · Page 110

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

— Conrad Hall

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

My father, he couldn't read or write.

— Joe R. Lansdale

'I Drink' took me two years to write.

— Mary Gauthier

“This is not at all bad, except as prose.”

— Gore Vidal

I love deliberately badly written books.

— Richard Prince

A good writer is always a people watcher.

— Judy Blume

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

— David Cage

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

— Daniel Pinkwater

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

— Maxwell Perkins

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

— Karin Slaughter

I write whether or not I'm planning to put it on the album.

— Alex G

“Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.”

— Colleen A.F. Venable

“When you break a writer’s heart, you fracture the universe of their imagination, leaving constellations of shattered dreams.”

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was…

— Robbie Robertson

“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to…

— Kobo Abe

“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.”

— Nora Roberts

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to…

— Nicholson Baker

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying…

— Ian Doescher

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm…

— Joanna Baillie

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,…

— Toni Morrison

To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and…

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when…

— Greg Lake

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…

— Fredric Jameson

Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable…

— Fred Haslam

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one…

— Alain de Botton

“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they…

— psyche roxas-mendoza

Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach…

— William Zinsser

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

— Dorothy Parker

“You are not eternal. Leave an eternal mark.”

— McNonwuun

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

— John McPhee

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

“I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind”

— William Shakespeare

It's really natural for me to write bilingually.

— Kali Uchis

“Poet, writer and anti-royalist”

— Alan Hardy

“To write is human; to revise is divine!”

— Ellwyn Autumn