Writing Quotes · Page 1,238

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature…

— Annie Dillard

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the…

— Vera Nazarian

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

“Can't live without writing. Can't write without reading. Can't read without dreaming. Can't dream without living.”

— Ksenia Anske

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that…

— Dave Itzkoff

“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Unfortunately, Erica's talent was acting, his writing, and gauging by her superior smirk, she was a reader, too, and he an open…

— Eden Winters

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of…

— Sam Shepard

“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to…

— Keneth Warren

I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a…

— Dave Douglas

I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors…

— Rachael Taylor

Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.…

— Mr. T

You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've…

— Chuck Wendig

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones…

— Frank Pittman

I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a…

— Johnny Flynn

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

— Anonymous

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog…

— Denise Mina

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

— Michael Salu

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I…

— Kevin Costner

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most…

— Jack Herer

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a…

— Margaret Atwood

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it…

— John Edgar Wideman

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your…

— Paullina Simons

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much…

— Jonathan Ames

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If…

— James Patterson

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their…

— Barbara Kingsolver

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what…

— Brian Posehn

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I…

— Gillian Jacobs

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

— Paul Walter Hauser

Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.

— Jeffrey Steele

“From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...”

— Junot Díaz

Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me…

— Ryan North

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good…

— Craig Finn

Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas…

— Vanessa Bayer

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?…

— Jodi Picoult