Writing Quotes · Page 146

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

— Richard Peck

“If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.”

— Amit Kalantri

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

— Regina King

“Writing is a product of silence.”

— Carrie Latet

“ALL WRITERS ARE READERS, BUT NOT IN REVERSE.”

— DDSherman

“I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”

— Anonymous

“You can learn to write by writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Writers are introverts that know how to talk.”

— Ksenia Anske

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

— Donald Miller

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

— Karl G. Maeser

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

— Andrzej Wajda

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

— Tanith Lee

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

— Horace Mann

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

— A. A. Gill

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

— Nora Roberts

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have…

— Richard Lewontin

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a…

— Hermann Hesse

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think…

— Taylor Swift

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and…

— Brandon Sanderson

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to…

— Lou Doillon

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little…

— Helmut Newton

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get…

— Anne Beatts

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written…

— Billy Collins

When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're…

— Adam Young

To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the…

— Elliott Yamin

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.…

— Isabel Allende

“Even for those thousands of young people who don’t get something out there [in a university writing program], the process is still…

— George Saunders

“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane…

— Herman Melville

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare…

— Howard Jacobson

We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them…

— Lesley Hazleton

If I had more time, I would have written less.

— Mark Twain

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

— George Crabbe

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Art is craft, not inspiration.

— Stephen Sondheim

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

— Judy Blume

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

— Beth Lisick

“I love to write...and so I do...”

— William Petersen

“I could write more, but that is all that matters.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer