Writing Quotes · Page 226

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

— David Frum

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

— Megan McCafferty

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

— Bodhidharma

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

— Jason Isbell

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

— Doris Lessing

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while…

— Craig Ferguson

“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.”

— Carla H. Krueger

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't…

— Lou Reed

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is…

— Kevin Sessums

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

— Susan Sontag

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?,"…

— Doug Liman

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you…

— Yann Tiersen

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,…

— Mike D

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a…

— Jorma Kaukonen

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of…

— Graham Joyce

There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than…

— Murray Bookchin

They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if…

— Tod Goldberg

When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said,…

— Jack Driscoll

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he…

— James Boswell

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or…

— Virginia Woolf

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I…

— James M. Cain

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

— Ethan Hawke

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book.”

— Mary Sisney

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

— Ann Beattie

“No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.”

— Alamvusha

Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up.

— Jimmie Allen

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

— Sharon Van Etten

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

— John Irving

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

— Stephen King

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

— Raymond Chandler

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton

I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.

— Ol Parker

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash