Writing Quotes · Page 2

“Write to your fear.”

— Dorothy Allison

Writing. Love is writing.

— Hilda Doolittle

Writing's so hard.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm just a storyteller.

— Norman Jewison

It was written in blood.

— Broken Soul

Writing is not fun.

— Rian Johnson

I love writing songs.

— Sade Adu

“Words have weight.”

— Stephen King

“Don't be afraid of what you're creating.”

— Christy Hall

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

— Avi

I really, really like writing songs.

— Debbie Harry

I've always loved writing.

— Casper Van Dien

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

— Rodolphus Agricola

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

— Lily Collins

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

— Charlie Kaufman

Writers have always been very underrated.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

— Chuck Berry

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

“The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.”

— Katherine Paterson

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

— Dave Finkel

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

— V. S. Naipaul

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

— William Faulkner

“If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose…

— Kahlil Gibran

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale…

— Marilyn Johnson

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of…

— Mark Kurlansky

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just…

— Sofia Coppola

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…

— Charles de Lint

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn…

— Elizabeth McGovern

As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books…

— Erwin McManus

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting…

— Luke Hemmings

What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The…

— David Icke

“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle…

— Barbara Abercrombie

Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should…

— Dorianne Laux

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell