Writing Quotes · Page 142

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

— Anita Brookner

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

— Anonymous

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

— Jane Yolen

“Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.”

— Amit Kalantri

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

— Thomas Hobbes

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

— Josh Billings

“Moral writing is boring.”

— Johan van Wyk

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

— Jacob Tremblay

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

— Dane Cook

Stop being my eraser, I want you to know that I'll write everything about you.

— Anonymous

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

— Joseph Addison

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

— David McCullough

You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

— Vladimir Sorokin

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama…

— Nicholas Sparks

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without…

— Robin Pecknold

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

I think Labrinth is an amazing writer and an amazing singer. His voice is just so magnetic. There are so many people…

— Daya

I take my pen , writte everything about our love , if the pen finished I will writte by my blood ,…

— Beljilali Mohamed

“Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties”

— Lloyd Alexander

I wasn't trying to write a book; it wasn't even in my vision. I was posting stuff online just because it made…

— Rupi Kaur

“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields…

— Sara Sheridan

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if thats all youve got,…

— Katy Perry

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that…

— George Dzundza

I'm always trying to find that role that will allow me to stretch and play a lot of different sides, but it's…

— Dave Franco

As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and…

— Markus Zusak

There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being…

— Mike O'Malley

The bottom line is that although you can do something on your own, even with my solo album, 'These Grey Men,' I…

— John Dolmayan

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some…

— Margaret Mahy

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

— David Brin

Moving on is like writing a new song.

— Britt L

To write I have to wake up at 5 A.M.

— Rachel Sennott

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri