Writing Quotes · Page 218

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

— Jonathan Lethem

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

— Derek Blasberg

“Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.”

— Ksenia Anske

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

— Margaret Atwood

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

— Alfred Doblin

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places…

— Sarah Pinborough

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age…

— Clive James

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success…

— Cinda Williams Chima

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes…

— Trent Reznor

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she…

— Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting…

— John Michael McDonagh

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that…

— Avi

“People are tagged with other labels that point to the lowest-status group they belong to, as in "woman doctor" or "black writer,"…

— Allan G. Johnson

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as…

— Jim Hodges

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was…

— Ben E. King

“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to…

— William Saroyan

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there,…

— Markus Zusak

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge…

— Daniel Radcliffe

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

— John Mortimer

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

— Mary Mouser

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

— Celeste Ng

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

— Paul Baloche

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

— Richard Greenberg

“writing it helped me to believe it. It staked some claim on the truth.”

— Amanda Lindhout

Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.

— Craig David

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'

— John Searles

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

— G-Eazy

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

— Eminem

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

— Joseph Brodsky

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.

— Geoff Stults

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

— Roger Taylor

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

— Shakira

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

— William Trevor