Writing Quotes · Page 221

“Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page.”

— Anonymous

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

— Alicia Keys

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

— Louis L'Amour

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

— Honore de Balzac

I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is…

— Rebecca Miller

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14…

— Avi

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a…

— Janet Fitch

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages…

— Anne Fadiman

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background…

— Julia Holter

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when…

— Don Marquis

“Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time. “Have”

— Anne Bishop

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for…

— John Updike

We have heard projects with some of the writers, who we've been in business with for a long time at the studio,…

— Gary Numan

“Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore…

— Jay Woodman

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame…

— Jim Carrey

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what…

— William Bernbach

I was always a wannabe 'singer-songwriter' but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my…

— Anupam Roy

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without…

— Walter Mosley

I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much…

— Wendy Williams

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

— Cynthia Ozick

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

— Bob Dylan

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

— Patrick Rothfuss

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

— Liz Carpenter

“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug”

— Maddy Kobar

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

— Christopher Hitchens

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

— Kameron Hurley

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

— Louise Erdrich

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

— Ann Patchett

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

Sometimes, to write something positive I need to be negative

— Shashank Rayal

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at…

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

— Oscar Wilde

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

— Josh Lanyon

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. -Kenny Powers

— Eastbound And Down