Writing Quotes · Page 137

“I'm not gonna write you a love song.”

— Sara Barellies

I have a little writer's cabin in the mountains.

— Robby Hoffman

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

— Meg Cabot

I'm a conservative classical writer.

— Peter Handke

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Writing a book is not a crime.

— Alexander Ahndoril

I wrote a thousand words every day

— Jack London

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

— Lloyd Alexander

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

— Macaulay

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

— Jack Thorne

“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”

— James Jones

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

— Robert De Niro

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like…

— Debby Ryan

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a…

— David Bowie

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of…

— George Orwell

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the…

— John Ralston Saul

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is…

— E. B. White

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex…

— Gary Lutz

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

— David O. Russell

Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of…

— Stephen McCauley

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way…

— Matsuo Basho

There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite,…

— Alan Seeger

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,…

— Joyce Kilmer

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by…

— Anonymous

“Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets…

— Douglas Wilson

“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need…

— Roxane Gay

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I…

— Paula Cole

“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it…

— Mehek Bassi

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

— Lillian Hellman

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

— Richard Attenborough

“I write what I like to read.”

— Johnny Worthen

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha