Writing Quotes · Page 177

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

Puritan age is a golden age of the prose writing.

— RMKATTA

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

— Winston Churchill

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

C.R.E.A.M isn't shit when I dream..

— Raghib Clitso

“Sit your ass down and write.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

— Anthony Powell

Pay attention to the sound of words.

— David Farland

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

“The problem with writing, is that it doesn't leave you time to read. ”

— Corey Salter

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

— Jennifer Stone

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

— Kevin Powers

Usually I write irrelevant twaddle and hope for the best.

— Tim Key

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

— Bruno Mars

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

— Theophilus London

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For…

— Rufus Wainwright

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

— Ernest Hemingway

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote…

— Theodore Sturgeon

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they…

— Sam Altman

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest…

— Joe Clifford Faust

I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future…

— Michael B. Jordan

If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide…

— Daoud Hari

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't…

— Miguel Syjuco

The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be…

— Mark Waid

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of…

— Norman Lock

Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately…

— Michael Arrington

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring…

— S. I. Hayakawa

My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen.…

— Christian Keiber

I can write pretty much anywhere.

— David Mitchell

My life is too mundane for anyone to write up.

— Ben Sasse

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

— Alan Guth

I write from my point of view.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,

— Mark Haddon

Do I have stupid written over my forehead?

— Judge Judy

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

— Ted Rall