Writing Quotes · Page 235

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

— Jay Mohr

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

— John Braine

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

— Gustave Flaubert

“I’m an American, I’m a Jew, and I write for all men.”

— Bernard Malamud

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

— Ray Bradbury

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

— Iwan Rheon

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

— Sarah Dunn

“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought”

— Michel Leiris

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an…

— Agatha Christie

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who…

— Anna Todd

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's…

— Bell Hooks

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

— Cao Yu

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

— Joel Stein

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside…

— Salman Rushdie

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…

— Sherman Alexie

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is…

— Ray Bradbury

My son is someone who wants to be a writer. My sons been writing for a long time, since he was 14,…

— Laurence Fishburne

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job.…

— Anchee Min

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that…

— Jonathan Swift

Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if…

— Peter Weller

“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had…

— Angela Carter

I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face…

— Elizabeth Crook

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

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When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

— Rob Halford

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

— Aleister Crowley

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

— Mason Cooley

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

— Bonnie Friedman

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

— Robert Paul Weston

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

— Todd Solondz

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

— Marjane Satrapi

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

— Sylvia Plath

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

— Dave Barry

“Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

— Neal A. Maxwell

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy