Writing Quotes · Page 140

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

Writing forces consciousness.

— Melody Beattie

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

— Erma Bombeck

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

— Michael Cretu

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

— Zane Grey

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

— Neil Diamond

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

— Jeff Bridges

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

— Jena Malone

When I write about wanting love, I have no one specific in mind.

— Anonymous

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,

— Nic Pizzolatto

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

— Cassadee Pope

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

— Daniel Handler

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

— Anne Lamott

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

— Sarah Dessen

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something…

— Aubrie Sellers

“I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.…

— Ann Patchett

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted…

— Saul Bellow

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who…

— Michael Frayn

“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs…

— Nick Hornby

I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in…

— George Saunders

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do,…

— Kate Morton

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism…

— Sue Grafton

“As much as possible, I am trying to create agency in my young writers. Students who have acquired agency don’t need the…

— Kelly Gallagher

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that…

— Kerry Washington

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster…

— James Hillman

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

— Torrey Peters

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”

— A.D. Posey

Politicians are better liars than writers.

— Shan Sa

“The good writers touch life often.”

— Ray Bradbury

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

— Baron Davis