Writing Quotes · Page 174

“If you talk about it, you probably won't write it”

— Irving Wallace

“Writing is like a breath of fresh air.”

— Chantal Bellehumeur

“It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap.”

— Jonathan O'Brien

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

— Anonymous

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

— Edward Albee

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

— Alexei Sayle

“I read your diary. I KNOW.”

— Mary Papas

So it shall be written. So it shall be done.

— Anonymous

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash

I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.

— Ol Parker

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

— David Frum

“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”

— Stewart Stafford

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

— Megan McCafferty

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong,…

— Carson McCullers

“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.…

— Gregory Bateson

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go…

— Jose James

I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending…

— Harry Redknapp

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not…

— Jonathan Kozol

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the…

— Joe King

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be…

— Irvine Welsh

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I…

— Julia Holter

I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo…

— Mark Millar

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is…

— John le Carre

There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the…

— Molly Antopol

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

— S.M. Stirling

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

I've always been a very prolific writer.

— Nanci Griffith

“Writers can live everywhere. It’s our superpower.”

— Scott Westerfeld

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

— George Murray

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

— Alexander Pushkin

I'm composing and writing music.

— Anthony Hopkins