Writing Quotes · Page 153

“Read and write. Vehemently.”

— Michael X

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

Writing is no respecter of blueprints.

— William Zinsser

“Moreover, liars write less than they speak.”

— Edouard Levé

“Discovery's friend is creativity”

— Phillip Gary Smith

The prison is the state writ small.

— Mason Cooley

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

— Andre Holland

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

— Geraint Thomas

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

— L.P. Hartley

“You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.”

— Robert Galbraith

“A day in which you write something is a day well-spent.”

— Anastasia Marie

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

— Lisa Gardner

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

— Julia Cameron

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

— Guy Johnson

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in…

— M. K. Hobson

I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing…

— Dan Hill

With writing, obviously you can really take the time to crack what you're going to say and build to a big point.

— Steve Kornacki

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to…

— Yukimi Nagano

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The…

— Kevin Chapman

“Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died.”

— Pilo Poly

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…

— Ralph Ellison

My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another…

— Stephen Karam

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything…

— James Frey

I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get…

— Bibi Bourelly

People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a…

— Brian Stableford

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge…

— Sue Monk Kidd

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year,…

— Randy Johnson

“I go with the flow but I write against it.”

— TL Burrell

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

— Bryce Courtenay

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

— Tyra Banks

I listen to music constantly while writing.

— Orson Scott Card

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

— Richard Attenborough

“Writing is the best anti-depressant.”

— Fierce Dolan

We write to make sense of it all.

— Wallace Stegner