Writing Quotes · Page 193

I'm composing and writing music.

— Anthony Hopkins

“Lack of clarity is a writer's truth.”

— Amy Tan

“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”

— Russell Edson

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

I've always been a very prolific writer.

— Nanci Griffith

“Writers can live everywhere. It’s our superpower.”

— Scott Westerfeld

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

— Alexander Pushkin

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

— George Murray

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

— Judd Apatow

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

— Bruce Vilanch

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

— Mark Twain

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

— Elia Kazan

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

— Walter Mosley

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

— Paul Auster

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

— Philip Glass

“I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.”

— Sara Winters

“Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

— Richard Yates

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

— Franny Armstrong

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

— Peter Matthiessen

We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent…

— Walter Becker

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going…

— Stevie Nicks

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I…

— Olivia Williams

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I…

— Meg Cabot

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

— James Cook

I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last…

— Ann Brashares

Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean…

— N. T. Wright

I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy…

— Saladin Ahmed

“Mr. Wellins said it didn’t matter what a writer intended his work to mean, that the only thing that mattered was what…

— Anonymous

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of…

— Ruth Ozeki

When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live…

— Jonah Hill

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't…

— Ian Rankin

“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with…

— Sherman Alexie

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

— Anonymous

I like to write a lot of satire.

— Earl King

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

— Andy Williams

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.

— Elliott Gould

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is the beast unto itself.

— Omar Epps

I don't read everything written about me.

— Gauri Khan