Writing Quotes · Page 129

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

— Truman Capote

I write everything from an acoustic guitar.

— Jelly Roll

I did a lot of weird jobs, like most writers do.

— Celeste Ng

You can make anything by writing.

— Anonymous

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

— Ridley Scott

I believe good writing can save bad art.

— Ryan North

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

— Jane Yolen

I do always write from a personal place.

— Natalie Prass

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

— Quintin Jardine

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

— James T. Farrell

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

— Michel de Montaigne

“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”

— Julian Darius

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

— Stephen King

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

— Nick McDonell

“Submit your story the same way you submit your heart. Let it break. Bruise it up. Let it get pummeled and sore…

— Talia Mailman

“The one essential class of workers, as an editorial writer in a New York Daily recently remarked, are the farmers.”

— Joseph Casper Husslein

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people…

— Alice Mattison

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"…

— Bob Dylan

“Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an ‘impression’, intensely subjective and…

— Geoffrey Harvey

At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even…

— Kami Garcia

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I…

— Ezra Pound

I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks…

— Leslie Weatherhead

You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much…

— Keira Knightley

I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail…

— John Feldmann

“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the…

— Scott Russell Sanders

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…

— Geraldine Brooks

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all…

— Daniel H. Wilson

[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I…

— Tracy Hickman

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

— Cyril Connolly

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

— Sylvia Plath

I get up very early and write a lot.

— Mark Kurlansky

I wish there was a pen that could copy and paste.

— Anonymous

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I've always been a writer.

— Peter Coyote

A name is written on a polished rock.

— Martina Mcbride