Writing Quotes · Page 144

“The Best of Writers have Abstract Minds”

— Tranaya jordan lowe

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

— Dido Armstrong

I don't write letters anymore.

— George H. W. Bush

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I just like doing it, I like writing.

— Alice Mattison

Suspect all your favorite sentences.

— Kenneth Atchity

I'm such a first-person writer.

— Laura van den Berg

I was always afraid to write music.

— Dory Previn

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

— Rashida Jones

“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

— Gerald Brenan

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

— Jay Mohr

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

— John Braine

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

— Ray Bradbury

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

— Gustave Flaubert

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been…

— Charles Stross

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour…

— Sammy Cahn

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people…

— Joanna Lumley

“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over…

— Ray Bradbury

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the…

— Zadie Smith

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered…

— Ben Elton

I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

— Nikki Gil

Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.

— Stephen Karam

You're forced to me to back going on copy & pest throughout eliminating my name on my own composition. that's really painful…

— Mak_786

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…

— Roberto Bolano

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on…

— Bill Watterson

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter…

— Gore Vidal

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I…

— Philip Pullman

“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

— Sanaa Lathan

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”

— Stendhal

Use the smallest word that does the job.

— E. B. White

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

— Cole Vosbury

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

— Lois Lowry

“I write to know what I think.”

— Joan Didion

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

— Bill McKibben