Writing Quotes · Page 127

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

— Jane Smiley

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

I have always found writing very difficult.

— Sandra Brown

“In a democracy government is the God.”

— Amit Kalantri

“we only read when you write”

— Ian Hunter

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

— Jarvis Cocker

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

— Robert Orben

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

— Richard Ford

“Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing”

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

— Chris Humphreys

I strongly believe that writing brings out one's thoughts and expressions well.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

— Julia Cameron

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually…

— Neil Gaiman

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the…

— Sylvester Stallone

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers…

— Eric Van Lustbader

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you…

— Anna Meredith

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the…

— Jane Haddam

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write…

— Harvey Fierstein

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between…

— Rachel Gibson

I'd like to write a play, and I'd like to write a sitcom, but these things take a lot of application. It…

— Tim Key

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of…

— Jason Reitman

“Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If…

— Philip Roth

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have…

— Tony Kushner

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself…

— Danzy Senna

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are…

— Mark Leyner

I am always trying to write.

— Joanna Newsom

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

— Matt Groening

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I don't read books, I write them.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln