Writing Quotes · Page 210

“Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”

— Anna Bayes

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

— Anonymous

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

— Chris Cubas

“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.”

— Amit Kalantri

Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

— Erica Jong

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

— Jesse Itzler

“Writing a book is like quilting. Once you start, keep on until it's finished.”

— Reba Birmingham

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

— Anonymous

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…

— Steven Pressfield

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and…

— J.M. Coetzee

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can…

— Anne Lamott

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

— Rian Johnson

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or…

— John Wells

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some…

— Robert Morgan

“from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to…

— Jay Woodman

You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing…

— Rachel Kushner

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished…

— Ally Carter

What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the…

— Kevin Keck

But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to…

— Ken Wilber

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in…

— Edie Sedgwick

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history…

— Rita Dove

I enjoy writing, and I know that if I can really focus on that and get some good tuturoing in English, I…

— Elijah Wood

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

— Kathryn Stockett

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

— Matt Berninger

“As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.”

— Mindy Kaling

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty

“Writer's block doesn't exist...lack of imagination does.”

— Cyrese Covelli

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

— Leon Uris

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

— John Landgraf

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

— Gavin Rossdale

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

— Mike Birbiglia

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

— Hannibal Buress

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson