Writing Quotes · Page 180

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

— Susan Wiggs

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

— M. Stanton Evans

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

— Frank Robinson

My medium is prose, not the novel.

— David Shields

You know what, I just write what I feel.

— Tommy Lee

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

— Sarah Lancashire

“i want to bleed ink and shit prose.”

— Jonathan Culver

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

— Harrison Birtwistle

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

— John Updike

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

— Elif Safak

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

— Roxane Gay

I normally don't like writing blogs that contain very little positivity.

— Jill Zarin

“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper”

— Teresa Nielsen Haydense

Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.

— Nick Frost

“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a…

— Ricardo Fleshman

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

— Paul Conrad

I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.

— Romy Madley Croft

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular…

— Ransom Riggs

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether…

— Sam Shepard

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing…

— John Crowley

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the…

— Chace Crawford

“Fifty years in this northern land Living as a machine that speaks Living as a human under a yoke Without talent With…

— Bandi

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or…

— Dennis Lehane

“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere.…

— Anonymous

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for…

— George R. R. Martin

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want…

— Patrick Modiano

When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale."…

— Wayne Dyer

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are…

— George Saunders

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

— Taryn Manning

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins

“As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

I've always liked new writing.

— Imelda Staunton