Writing Quotes · Page 238

“The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.”

— Isaac Goldberg

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

— Jim Rash

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~”

— Darke Conteur

“You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.”

— Christy Hall

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

— Oscar Wilde

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd…

— Ricky Jay

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and…

— Conor Oberst

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

— Anonymous

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It…

— Haley Pullos

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates…

— Elif Safak

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little…

— Alan Moore

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my…

— Robert Osborne

I'm not a hot girl who's going to wear a hot outfit. I just want to show up in a dress I…

— Quinta Brunson

At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news…

— Walter Cronkite

Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found…

— Sasha Pieterse

I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with…

— Jenny Hval

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

— Jorja Smith

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

— Thalia Zedek

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

— Marianne Moore

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

— Anna Quindlen

“A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.”

— Stephanie Lennox

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

— Alice Munro

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

— Anonymous

“almost all copywriters these days write in a conversational manner.”

— Jason Goldberg

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

— Paul Achleitner

“Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.”

— Aneta Cruz

“There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.”

— Jesse Abundis

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

— Florence King

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

— Eudora Welty