Writing Quotes · Page 244

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

— Philip Roth

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

— Peter Bichsel

“I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.”

— Katie Kiesler

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

— Abigail Padgett

“Masturbation, like writing, is best when your mind is working faster than your hand.”

— Jarod Kintz

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

I wonder how people write exactly how they feel and give the reader the same feeling. Its a blessing!!

— Farah Mustafa

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

— Honore de Balzac

“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the…

— Vijay Seshadri

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop…

— Barry Manilow

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the…

— Linus Roache

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy.…

— Chris Rock

I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always…

— Patrick Marber

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an…

— Jackie Collins

Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects…

— Tristan Prettyman

Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write…

— Ellie Goulding

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the…

— Dani Shapiro

I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have…

— Donald Kaufman

When I played the lead actor, it was a stressful job right from the starting to the release of the film. I…

— Jagapathi Babu

Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that…

— Lucas Mann

Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of…

— William Crookes

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

— Anonymous

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

— Ilsa J. Bick

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

— Kenneth Edmonds

I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.

— Gulzar

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

— Julianne Moore

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

— Allison Pearson

“No writer should be the same as another, that’s not art.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

I belong to a teachers' family and writing was my expression.

— Sudha Murty

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

— Anonymous

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

— Gail Honeyman

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”

— Cristina Istrati

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard