Writing Quotes · Page 236

“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.”

— Primadonna Angela

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

— Mary Karr

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

— Marcel Proust

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

I love writing and I just sit at my keyboard and write.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

— Mandy Moore

“A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.”

— John McPhee

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

— Shania Twain

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is…

— Fred Savage

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of…

— Anthony Storr

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

— Walter Isaacson

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested…

— Howard Jacobson

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to…

— Nelson Mandela

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I…

— Anonymous

“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded. They become helpless abiding in their own fear, pain, conflict, or…

— Anonymous

“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in…

— George Orwell

“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible…

— Bell Hooks

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make…

— Peter Heller

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime…

— Ezra Pound

“Grandpa, I haven't remembered all your stories, but I've written a few of my own adn as soon as the rain stops…

— Saša Stanišić

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not…

— Anne Enright

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

— Claire Messud

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

— Chris O'Dowd

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none

— Anonymous

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

— Steven Moffat

“Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can blink.”

— M.B. Walsh

“We're all in this story together; let's write it well.”

— Steve Harvey

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

— David Ogilvy

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

— Laura Harrier

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

— Ben Lerner

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

— Jeanette Winterson

Write him off quick. I think that's the end of him, really. He's gone.

— Nick Faldo

I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about.

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

If only I could talk as good as I can write, then maybe I wouldn't be all alone tonight.

— Robert Boughter

“No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer”

— Michael Lennick

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson