Writing Quotes · Page 192

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

“I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.”

— Stephen Fry

“I read your diary. I KNOW.”

— Mary Papas

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

— Anonymous

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

— S.M. Stirling

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jonathan O'Brien

“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”

— Tibor Fischer

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

— Ani DiFranco

I have always loved writing and I used to pen down my thoughts, little stories and poems growing up.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

— Ralph Peters

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

— A. N. Wilson

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

— Paul McCartney

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

— Peter Corris

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way…

— O. Henry

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to…

— Graham Greene

When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice…

— Woody Allen

At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I…

— Suzy Menkes

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

— Anonymous

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to…

— Fran Drescher

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about…

— Stephen King

“That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make…

— John Irving

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I…

— Marion Cotillard

[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the…

— Antonin Artaud

“I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am…

— E. B. White

The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had…

— Paul Harding

I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to…

— Sylvia Plath

“If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone…

— Eugène Ionesco

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time.…

— Russ

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

— Irving Wallace

“Writing is like a breath of fresh air.”

— Chantal Bellehumeur

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

— Alexei Sayle

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

— Edward Albee

“Keep writing. It's all terrible in the beginning.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“Write what you know and be true to yourself.”

— Tracie Ingersoll Loy

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

— Chris Lilley

It's just a job. I don't like writing.

— Catherine Gaskin