Writing Quotes · Page 204

I am a part of all I have read.

— Anonymous

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

— Samuel Rogers

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

— Richard O'Brien

“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

— Thomas Lux

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

— Anonymous

“Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.”

— Wesley McNair

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

— Lauren Alaina

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.

— Charlotte Caffey

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

— Louis Sachar

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

— Hannah Arendt

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”

— C. Toni Graham

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

— J. R. Ackerley

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

— Jack Edmonds

“If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word.”

— Carolyn Haines

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and…

— Ben Stiller

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

— Reeve Carney

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.

— Neko Case

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

— Joseph Brodsky

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory…

— Leonardo da Vinci

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for…

— Peter McWilliams

There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart. It's…

— Aino Jawo

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I give a shy smile. They are staring at me and I start to feel self conscious. I have a god feeling…

— Jade

I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For…

— Kelly Link

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with…

— Pattiann Rogers

Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It…

— Ezra Pound

I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is…

— Matthew Zapruder

When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't…

— Daryl Wein

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

Never write a letter while you are angry.

— Jimi Hendrix

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

You must do what you say you do.

— Rudolfo Anaya Poet & Writer