Writing Quotes · Page 248

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

— Yasunari Kawabata

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

— Kyle Korver

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

— Katie Chang

I particularly like writing on planes. You've got nothing else to do but concentrate.

— Rick Stein

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

— Malachy McCourt

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

My life is a story, and I am the author, but i've written in pen so the mistakes i've made cannot be…

— Briana

“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something…

— Jamie Ford

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the…

— Jim Gaffigan

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:…

— William Trevor

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I…

— Michael Cera

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very…

— Peter Turchi

'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a…

— Rick Ross

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the…

— David Bezmozgis

You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might…

— Charlie Day

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot…

— Richard Meale

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was…

— Steve Martin

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in…

— Haruki Murakami

I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is…

— Cheryl Strayed

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers…

— Philip Sidney

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

— Nick Carter

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

— Jean Fritz

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

— Robert Bresson

The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone.

— Anna Todd

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

— Mark Twain

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I like to write to decompress - that's very satisfying to me.

— Alisyn Camerota

“If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.”

— T.F. Hodge

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

— Greg Olsen