Writing Quotes · Page 245

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

— Elvis Presley

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

— James Van Allen

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

— Carolyn Kizer

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

— Jay Duplass

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at…

— Jo Nesbo

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

— Ned Beatty

“Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it…

— Judy Penz Sheluk

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

— Zoe Quinn

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

— Richard Dawkins

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty…

— Nicholas Sparks

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by…

— Jonathan Meades

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get…

— Fran Lebowitz

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write…

— Julia Cameron

In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write.…

— Lynne Tillman

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski,…

— Harold Ramis

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses,…

— Edward Dahlberg

“He stares now at the three words he has written.They are ridiculous. Writing is ridiculous. A sentence, any sentence, is absurd. Just…

— Jo Baker

“I’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though…

— Francine Prose

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words…

— Elena Ferrante

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because…

— Orson Scott Card

“I began writing about power because I had so little.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

— Jane Yolen

I think of myself as a storyteller, more so than an actress.

— Naomi Ackie

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

— Roland Barthes

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is what you make it. But if you can't make it as you want it... write it.”

— Anonymous

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

— Adam Driver

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

— Jennifer Egan

“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?”

— Theresa Rebeck

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

— Sam Hunt