Writing Quotes · Page 16

Writing is seduction.

— Stephen King

All writers are vampires.

— James Gandolfini

“Writing is my rebelion”

— Marie Lu

I like writing.

— Lara Dutta

I write poems.

— Bill Ward

I'm a very slow writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I read and write a lot.

— Kunal Kapoor

“All writers are insane!”

— Cornelia Funke

I don't write, I build a rhyme.

— Kool Moe Dee

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

— Anais Nin

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

— Robert McKee

I started writing songs at 17.

— Miranda Lambert

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

— Zach Anner

Something that you feel will find its own form.

— Jack Kerouac

If I write the song, I get to name it.

— Britt Daniel

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

— Michael Ironside

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

— John Gierach

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

— Lisa Lopes

“The ear is the only writer and the only true reader.”

— Robert Frost

“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”

— Hillary Frank

“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”

— Elena Ferrante

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

What's really fun is to write under different names.

— Tom Verlaine

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

— Orson Welles

“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and…

— Amiri Baraka

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

— Rebecca West

When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian…

— William Jackson Harper

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

— Matthew Specktor

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every…

— John Ruskin

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it…

— John Geddes

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride…

— Joe Shuster

Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who…

— Cameron Crowe

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with…

— David Foster Wallace

“Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many…

— David Bischoff

The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until…

— Richard Bach

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at…

— Adora Svitak

“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly…

— Roberto Bolaño