Writing Quotes · Page 114

“Only write if you can't not.”

— Stephen Bergman

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

— Lauren Groff

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

— Ann Patchett

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.

— David Bryan

I spend most of my time writing.

— Louise Erdrich

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

— Gary Shteyngart

“And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong.”

— Andrea Gibson

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

— Anjelica Huston

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

— Nigel Kneale

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

— Torae

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

— Eudora Welty

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

— Barbara Mertz

Life is a notebook , 2 pages are already written by god … 1st page is birth . Last page is death…

— Ashj

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

— Robert Morgan

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing…

— Jim Crace

“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.”

— Sara Sheridan

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have…

— Paulo Coelho

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

“Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out…

— Ann Patchett

Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to…

— Charlie Day

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to…

— Benjamin Percy

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I…

— Lucas Neff

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All…

— James Cameron

I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun…

— Randall Mann

February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness…

— Boris Pasternak

“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

“And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in…

— DeLillo Don

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

— Michael Connelly

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

— Amy Lee

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

— Jay Griffiths

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

“A dysfunctional family makes for great writing -”

— Angela Rose

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

— Beverly Cleary

“Art is the overflow of emotion into action.”

— Brian Raif

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel