Writing Quotes · Page 227

“one sign of a writer’s potential is his especially sharp ear—and eye—for language.”

— John Gardner

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

— Larry Wilmore

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

— Ruskin Bond

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

— James T. Farrell

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

— Richard Brautigan

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

— Stephen King

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

— Rebecca Wells

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made…

— Samuel Johnson

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…

— Tracy Kidder

“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see”

— Marwa Helal

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a…

— T. R. Pearson

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the…

— Anonymous

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm…

— Elmore Leonard

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing…

— Khalid

Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.…

— Anna Quindlen

“But we were chumps and we knew it. As makers of sentences we were practically fetal, beneath notice, unlaunched, fooling around in…

— Jonathan Lethem

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By…

— Meghan Trainor

“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with…

— Mike Wallace

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad…

— F. Sionil Jose

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things.…

— Mel Gibson

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why…

— Lena Waithe

“I wish you would, because I’m not sure how long I can put up with this.” “I’ll bet you can put up…

— Jennifer Echols

“Sick of writers. Sick of creeds. Now I reverence. Only deeds.”

— Gregg Bell

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

— Anatole France

“Writing is a love & hate relationship. You'll love the job, you'll hate the work.”

— Anonymous

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

— Leo Tolstoy

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

“Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“The grace of writing is upon me. I love writing. I write daily.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord

“What's wrong with writing about love? Everybody longs for love.”

— Kate Forsyth

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

— Matt LeBlanc

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

— Thomas Keller

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Writing 1000 words is only daunting if you haven't written them. When you're done, it's pie.”

— Selena Blake

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

— Patrick McHenry

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

— Mort Walker