Writing Quotes · Page 119

I want to live at home. You can only write at home.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

— Mabel

I don't write music for sissy ears.

— Charles Ives

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

— Melvyn Bragg

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

— Iris Johansen

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

— PJ Harvey

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

All writers are propagandists.

— Derrick Jensen

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

— Jean Stafford

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

— Dolly Parton

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

— Clare B. Dunkle

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

“If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!”

— Robert Scott

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes…

— Jostein Gaarder

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

— Lewis Black

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

— Charlie Kaufman

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny,…

— Alicia Ostriker

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out…

— Craig Finn

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are…

— Michel Foucault

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my…

— Shane Filan

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you…

— Jonathan Gold

The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

“As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first…

— Henry Miller

There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the…

— George Stephanopoulos

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods…

— Toni Morrison

“Honor He Wrote (The Sonnet) I am not a writer, writers have limits, I have none, I only have responsibility, The responsibility…

— Abhijit Naskar

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

— Christine McVie

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

— Alan Furst

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

— Justine Musk

“A cliche is a cliche because it works”

— Feige Gornish

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

— John Rhys-Davies

Genius is the art of taking pains

— Claude C. Hopkins

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

— Jules Verne