Writing Quotes · Page 217

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

— Josh Peck

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

— Milan Kundera

“You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book”

— Emily Gowor

“Laymen are not allowed to carry around the blessed Host to throw at people.”

— John C Wright

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

— Andre Previn

“If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's…

— Don Roff

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

— Rick Moody

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer…

— Yoshiki

“It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its…

— Perry Anderson

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me…

— Barbara Hamby

I am learning something new everyday, be it learning piano or enrolling myself for online courses, reading, writing or doing yoga.

— Radhika Madan

“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say…

— George Bernard Shaw

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as…

— Shawn Mendes

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and…

— David O. Russell

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms…

— A. S. Byatt

“There is a writer in each one of us…it's only a matter of time before we put those emotions and experiences of…

— Ariana Miller

I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for…

— Tony Kushner

Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter…

— Jack Canfield

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a…

— Hope Davis

Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,…

— Thom S. Rainer

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after…

— John Irving

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

— Clive Barker

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

— PJ Harvey

Writing about your disappointments and your life is for your diary not Facebook.

— Anonymous

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

— Lauren Alaina

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

— Margaret Anderson

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

— Philip Gerard

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

— Pat Conroy

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

— Keanu Reeves

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

— Steve Toltz

“Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future”

— Jordone Branch

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

— Tom Conti

“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I am written off constantly because I am fat, skint, mad and loud.”

— Rae Earl

True to life stories are being written, which is great. These stories touch the heart of the audience.

— Dharmendra