Writing Quotes · Page 1,555

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible…

— Erin Maya Darke

I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to…

— Barry Kerch

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down,…

— Daniil Kharms

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have…

— Bill Ayers

Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept…

— Mona Simpson

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross…

— Dorothy Day

“Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots,…

— Rudy Rucker

I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my…

— Lee Kelly

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht…

— Anne Bradstreet

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in…

— Lauren Groff

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I…

— Cheryl Strayed

It's something I thought I would like to do writing about my career, but I didn't think it would become as big…

— Paul Mullin

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by…

— Sue Grafton

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined…

— Ian Mcewan

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences…

— Susan Sontag

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts,…

— Michelle Shocked

Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that…

— Chuck Ragan

The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of…

— Teju Cole

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead…

— Anonymous

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they…

— R. L. Stine

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,…

— Nell Freudenberger

National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a…

— Virginia Heffernan

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who…

— Anita Loos

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I…

— Charles Grodin

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His…

— Bartolome de las Casas

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,…

— Will Self

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making…

— Daniel Tosh

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds…

— Laeta Kalogridis

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and…

— Julian Huxley

“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.…

— Anne Rice

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science…

— William Gibson

I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the…

— Mark Kurlansky

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…

— Harlan Coben

“I’m often asked if I think the beginning writer of fiction can benefit from writing classes or seminars. The people who ask…

— Stephen King