Writing Quotes · Page 234

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

A big thank you for your blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Laptop Notebook

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

— Ray Bradbury

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

— Lorrie Moore

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

— Joshua Radin

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

— Dejan Stojanovic

“the time coming when I can endure to read my own writing in print without blushing—shivering and wishing to take cover?”

— Virginia Woolf

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to…

— Dito Montiel

The truth is that 'Twilight' is not a story about Bella and Jacob. It's a story about Bella and Edward. That was…

— Rebecca Serle

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

— Ernest Hemingway

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that…

— Walter Cronkite

“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.”

— Gary Reilly

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write…

— Jason Isbell

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain…

— Manuel Puig

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that…

— Lee Smith

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their…

— Nancy Pelosi

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.…

— Quentin Tarantino

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can…

— Chuck Klosterman

I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth…

— Molly Antopol

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of…

— Alan Moore

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

— Aaron Sorkin

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

“I did not think about what sort of people might read it. In fact, I was writing it for myself.”

— Gao Xingjian

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

— Indro Montanelli

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

— Jeanette Winterson

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

— Larry Gelbart

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

— Ewan McGregor

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

— Adrianne Palicki

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

— Ruta Sepetys

“Sometimes your're not missing out they are Kameelah Writes”

— Kameelah Frazier

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

— Willie Geist