Writing Quotes · Page 202

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

— Pooja Bhatt

“What’s hard is sitting down to write.”

— Anonymous

“You can best write about your own experiences.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for every word you can cut.

— William Zinsser

“No book is written; it's always re-written”

— Jean Fullerton

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

— Lewis Black

Roles for women need to be better written.

— Dia Mirza

I had writer's block for almost a year.

— Frank Ocean

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

— Jay DeMarcus

“The best antidote to writer's block is...to write.”

— Henriette Anne Klauser

“If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.”

— K.D. Green

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

— Anthony Bourdain

I am writing my own legacy, and I am carrying NXT along for the ride.

— Tommaso Ciampa

I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.

— Erykah Badu

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

— Sylvia Day

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

— Patricia Highsmith

“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul,…

— Ernest J. Gaines

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because…

— J. G. Ballard

When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I…

— Christopher Priest

Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year…

— David Letterman

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very…

— Jack Nicholson

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at…

— Zachary Schomburg

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished.…

— Lucy Christopher

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.…

— Juanes

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t…

— Michael Jackson

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and…

— Raoul Peck

I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and…

— Juliette Lewis

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts…

— Ann Shen

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed,…

— Jennifer Egan

Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies,…

— Monica Hesse

Looking back, when my cousins and I were kids, we'd put together these little skits - these 10-minute improv scenes. I didn't…

— Anthony Ramos

“Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.”

— Stacey T. Hunt

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

— Tony Harrison

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

— Horace Walpole

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

I want to write, act, and direct!

— Megyn Price

“Only God can write the end of your story.”

— Mitch Albom