Writing Quotes · Page 237

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

— Ruth Rendell

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

— Jeremy Page

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

— William Styron

Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

— Lucy Boynton

I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in…

— Miranda Lambert

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it,…

— David Walliams

The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go…

— Jens Lekman

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into…

— Clarence Major

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I…

— Ellie Goulding

“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down…

— Jarod Kintz

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.…

— Flannery O'Connor

In the past, you would take the time to write a love letter and you would think about what you wanted to…

— Haider Ackermann

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take…

— Roald Dahl

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the…

— Charles J. Shields

I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I…

— Scott Westerfeld

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different…

— James Salter

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,…

— Wendell Berry

I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for…

— Robert Falcon Scott

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

— Hermann Hesse

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

— Peter Kreeft

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”

— Melody Lee

“The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.”

— Gregory Maguire

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

— Louise Doughty

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

— Jean Smart

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

— Jennifer Egan

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

— Abi Morgan

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

— Ellen Bass

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

— Adam Granduciel

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

— Janet Frame