Writing Quotes · Page 21

“Don't think it, in it.”

— Anonymous

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

“It is written.”

— Jasper Fforde

The writer is all alone.

— V. S. Naipaul

I love to read and write.

— Kunal Kapoor

I do write my own stuff.

— Sabrina Claudio

Written on the bullet.

— Flyleaf

“Get black on white.”

— Guy de Maupassant

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

— Ted Solotaroff

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

— Doris Lessing

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim

It's the writing that teaches you.

— Isaac Asimov

I hate commas in the wrong places.

— Walt Whitman

If you can write it, I can be it.

— Karen Black

I write about what I'm going through.

— Kesha

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

— Kate Atkinson

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

— Irving Berlin

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

— Nina Nesbitt

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

— William Golding

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened…

— Jorge Luis Borges

One of the big grapples with taking medication for me was my creativity and feeling like creating and writing were going to…

— Noah Kahan

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I…

— Alan Palomo

The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played…

— Les Claypool

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his…

— Aeschylus

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making…

— Dean Koontz

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,…

— Robert Hass

“You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always…

— John Fowles

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of…

— Sarah Lancashire

You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writing has always been so much fun for me, and it still is. I think if you can keep it fun, then…

— Eddie Rabbitt

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As…

— Claudia Rankine

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…

— M. John Harrison

I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords…

— Miles Davis

“People's assumptions tend to default to white and male, especially when the writer is loud and unapologetically critical and sharp around the…

— Lindy West