Writing Quotes · Page 183

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

— Samuel Johnson

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

— Julia Cameron

My father writes through clothes.

— David Lauren

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

— William Campbell Gault

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

— Salman Rushdie

The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.

— Sophie Irene Loeb

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

— Howard Jacobson

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

— Anthony Minghella

“When written correctly, science fiction is science prophecy.”

— Shawn Stern

“Writing. Is it a way to be remembered, or a need to become immortal?”

— Toba Beta

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

— Anonymous

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted experiences from Cape Town to right up in northern Mozambique.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!”

— L.A. Jones

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

— Anonymous

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room…

— Brian Posehn

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

— John Geddes

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

— Toni Cade Bambara

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

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

— Matthew Specktor

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

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

— Rebecca West

Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,…

— Karen Karbo

The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

“The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat…

— Shannon L. Alder

I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were.…

— Deb Olin Unferth

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable…

— Peter Galison

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and…

— George Carlin

I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of…

— Chelsea Martin

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

— Anonymous

Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

— Margaret Atwood

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

— Lily Collins

The great artist is the simplifier.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful

— Seamus Heaney

“The novel cannot submit to authority.”

— Julian Gough

“Write when inspired, write to inspire”

— Ollie