Writing Quotes · Page 188

I love Le Carre's writing.

— Florence Pugh

I consider writing an act of good citizenship.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A writer must say yes to life.

— Natalie Goldberg

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

— Leslie Lamport

“Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.”

— L.L. Barkat

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

— Will Durant

“So let it be written, so let it be done.”

— Brent Weeks

I haven't got the energy to write now.

— Doris Lessing

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

— Abi Morgan

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

— Hugh Hefner

A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all in love is fair.

— Matt Belsante

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

— Rita Dove

I do love to dance, and that's fun, but I will never stop writing my quiet, sensitive songs.

— Alison Sudol

“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.”

— Dennis R. Miller

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

— Andrae Crouch

“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that…

— Hélène Cixous

To write a song is one thing, to get it to No.1 is another and to have a respected artist cover it…

— Shakin' Stevens

“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters…

— Mark Alders

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and…

— Barbara Bush

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could…

— Larry Wilmore

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that…

— Seamus Heaney

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical…

— Albert Goldbarth

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV…

— Tim Bray

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of…

— Brent Runyon

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into…

— Jackie French

“The hours spent forming a written work can make one obsessive, distracted, compulsive, and neurotic even, especially when it comes to those…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with…

— Molly Ringwald

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that…

— David Starkey

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

“There are no wrongs just write.”

— Beverly Gail Bernett

“What luck has gave you will probably leave you.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

— R. A. Salvatore

The right story needs the right telling.

— John Green

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

— Peter Baynham