Writing Quotes · Page 14

I like writing.

— Lara Dutta

I write poems.

— Bill Ward

I'm a very slow writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I read and write a lot.

— Kunal Kapoor

Writing is seduction.

— Stephen King

“Writing is my rebelion”

— Marie Lu

All writers are vampires.

— James Gandolfini

I prefer type than write

— Pipim Prima

Deeper still, that night I write by candle light

— Faithless

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

— John Prine

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”

— Amit Kalantri

The language of the street is always strong.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I wasn't good at saying. I was good at writing.”

— Tarryn Fisher

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

— Dan Chaon

“Your life is a story, so how are you writing it?”

— Marie Guillaume

“There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else.”

— Derek Haines

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

— Frank Ocean

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

— Harlan Coben

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the…

— Barbara Mertz

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

— Jack Zipes

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

— Elinor Glyn

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

— Antoniette Costa

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in…

— George R. R. Martin

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in…

— Shane Smith

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue…

— Michael Arrington

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of…

— Iain Banks

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

— Roy Kesey

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

— Donna Tartt

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that…

— Amor Towles

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control…

— E.M. Forster

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They…

— Paul Dirac

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I…

— Gore Vidal

“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university…

— Roberto Bolaño

Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you…

— Yusef Lateef

Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity…

— Veronica Roth

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.…

— Jess Row