Writing Quotes · Page 22

“Write to your fear.”

— Dorothy Allison

I am not a writer.

— Anonymous

Writing. Love is writing.

— Hilda Doolittle

I'm just a storyteller.

— Norman Jewison

Writing's so hard.

— Lynne Ramsay

It was written in blood.

— Broken Soul

I love writing songs.

— Sade Adu

Writing is not fun.

— Rian Johnson

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

— Victor Hugo

“I am writing this because they cannot.”

— Jill Talbot

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

The writer has to be brave, I think.

— Dana Spiotta

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

Write about what makes you different.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

— Andre Aciman

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

— David Cross

“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.”

— Patrick White

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

— Mary H.K. Choi

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

— Harry Belafonte

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

— William Golding

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

— Rick Riordan

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but…

— Emo Philips

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future…

— Michael B. Jordan

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest…

— Joe Clifford Faust

I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have…

— Richard K. Morgan

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they…

— Sam Altman

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I…

— Anonymous

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a…

— Paul Auster

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God.…

— Piers Paul Read

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is…

— Barack Obama

I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for…

— Justin Timberlake

“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I…

— robert m drake

I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did…

— Matthew West