Writing Quotes · Page 120

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

— Ben Affleck

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

— Robert Hass

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

— Alice Mattison

Don't get it right, just get it written.

— James Thurber

“The poet writes the history of his own body.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Rituals help us change modes.”

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

— Allison Silverman

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

— Blaise Cendrars

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert

“Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.”

— Ally Condie

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

You cannot control what people say, think, and write about you.

— Erling Haaland

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by…

— George Orwell

“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real…

— Ian McEwan

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some…

— John Steinbeck

“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise,…

— H.P. Oliver

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

— Ace Antonio Hall

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the…

— Richard Carrier

For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one,…

— Will Hobbs

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects…

— Mary Pipher

“Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!' 'I don't…

— M. John Harrison

I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would…

— Erica Jong

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to…

— James A. Baldwin

“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that…

— George Orwell

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the…

— Nilo Cruz

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is…

— Donald Miller

“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the…

— Anne Lamott

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust…

— Alberto Moravia

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

— Virginia Woolf

I'll never be a TV writer.

— Tom Segura

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

— Henry Mancini

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The words come at my call but who calls whom?”

— Jeanette Winterson