Writing Quotes · Page 216

“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”

— Kathryn Stockett

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more…

— Alia Shawkat

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— Stewart O'Nan

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

— Beth Orton

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

— Colum McCann

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

— Sarah Waters

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers…

— Dean Koontz

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

— Sherman Alexie

I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write…

— John Rzeznik

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or…

— Lori Foster

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that…

— Paul Theroux

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our…

— Michel Foucault

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's…

— Rebecca Stead

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how…

— Brian K. Vaughan

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You…

— James Blunt

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie…

— Samuel Richardson

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be…

— Carolyn Chute

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and…

— Anonymous

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real…

— Erin Morgenstern

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of…

— Joseph Addison

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

— Floyd Cooper

“Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one”

— Ted Dekker

“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”

— Tobias Wolff

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

— Robert Duvall

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

— Ned Beauman

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

— Tracy Chapman

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

— Ronald Biggs

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

— H. G. Wells

Admit It¦ You Love Reading What People Write In The Back Of Textbooks.

— Anonymous

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

— William Allingham

“... your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you

— Brandi L. Bates

“Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.”

— Anonymous

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

— Evelyn Glennie

“Have you thrown ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ at her yet?”

— Elle Lothlorien