Writing Quotes · Page 155

I've never been a confessional writer.

— KT Tunstall

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

— Rebecca Hall

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

— Yves Klein

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

I like to write at home a lot.

— Rodney Atkins

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

— Kate Braverman

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

— Derek Walcott

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

— Pat Conroy

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

— Maren Morris

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

— Frances Moore Lappé

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than…

— Cheryl Hines

“Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath…

— Nikita Dudani

“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a…

— Dan Savage

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply…

— Sam Altman

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?…

— Dan Brown

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will…

— Isaac Asimov

When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I'm in the business, I…

— Anupam Roy

“If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love…

— Jamie Anne Royce

The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It's a strange kind of hybrid of the…

— Brent Spiner

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer…

— Maz Jobrani

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little…

— Lorrie Moore

“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you…

— John McPhee

“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of…

— Natalie Goldberg

“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than…

— Kathryn Mattingly

Thinking positive about your problems is a safe way to get relief from worry. Acknowledge that there is something within you which…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

— Taylor Sheridan

I write in a rush of memory.

— Brent Runyon

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

— Daniel Lissing

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

— Mason Cooley

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

— Chinua Achebe

“Writing is a team sport.”

— Chris White

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

— Buck Henry