Writing Quotes · Page 24

TV is a writer's medium.

— Sara Ramirez

“Remember The Poem ...”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Reading is my potent weapon to write”

— Angelison

I use Twitter as a writing tool a lot.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I see but one rule: to be clear.

— Stendhal

I write what I want to write.

— Jorja Smith

“Don't write to impress. Write to inspire.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

— Jim Watt

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

— Jennifer Weiner

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

— Edward Gorey

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy…

— Boyd K. Packer

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their…

— Flannery O'Connor

“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit…

— Wanda Lea Brayton

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it.…

— T Cooper

I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20…

— Martin Freeman

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

— Laini Taylor

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came…

— George Stephen

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off…

— Karin Slaughter

“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools…

— Thomas Munro

I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down…

— Don DeLillo

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are…

— Ellen Goodman

“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are…

— Peter cox

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their…

— Samuel Johnson

The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and…

— Abhishek Bachchan

“Writing is a temporal form of creating forever.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“Three words for a writer: Make me care.”

— Buffy Andrews

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

I see myself as a storyteller.

— Susanne Bier

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

Writers have always been very underrated.

— Ayushmann Khurrana