Writing Quotes · Page 166

What you write chooses you.

— Terry Brooks

“You were meant to write this book.”

— M. Kirin

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

— Neil Young

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

— Alice Mattison

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

I want to write, act, and direct!

— Megyn Price

“Only God can write the end of your story.”

— Mitch Albom

“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.”

— Onyi Anyado

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

— Michael Ironside

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

— Evanna Lynch

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

“I’m taking you out.” He winks at her. “I have to. It’s been written in the stars.”

— Dark Calling

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

— John Scalzi

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore…

— Ree Drummond

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years…

— Jack Vance

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the…

— Edie Brickell

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as…

— Paul Theroux

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the…

— Mordecai Richler

I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very…

— Marina Warner

I love writing with really experienced producers and co-writers who open my mind to things I never would have thought otherwise. We…

— Cassadee Pope

“It’s funny that when you decide you want to do creative work—journalism or music or films or whatever—nobody tells you how much…

— John Biewen

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk…

— Neil Gaiman

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of…

— David Levi Strauss

“On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and…

— Samantha Steele

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up…

— Paulo Coelho

I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have…

— Coley Sohn

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

— Tony Harrison

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

— Horace Walpole

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

— Lewis Black

Roles for women need to be better written.

— Dia Mirza

“No book is written; it's always re-written”

— Jean Fullerton

I had writer's block for almost a year.

— Frank Ocean