Writing Quotes · Page 256

Can you rap better than a person that constantly writes? How he always run across new words. - Loverboi

— Kenneth Melvin Jr

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”

— Norman Mailer

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

— Andy Cohen

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

— LP

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

— Corey Haim

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling…

— Truman Capote

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters…

— George R. R. Martin

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized…

— Greg Lake

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with…

— Kenneth Lonergan

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing,…

— Mija

“A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at…

— C.J. Heck

“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

— Ken Robinson

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain…

— Gore Vidal

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it,…

— David Mccandless

My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as…

— Simon Sinek

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and…

— Adam Roberts

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like…

— Jason Bateman

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

“God as preached and lived by Jesus, the Enlightenment writers put human non-exclusionary justice ahead of the law. This rational philosophy did…

— Frank Schaeffer

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember…

— Alex Garland

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

— Ben Parr

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

— Marianne Williamson

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

— Salman Rushdie

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.

— Roger Zelazny

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

— Werner Herzog

Writing a tweet is not like impressing someone. Don't try too hard.

— Nikhil Saluja

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

— Jeanette Winterson

“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés”

— Carl Henegan

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

— Julia Cameron

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin

“Read everything you can; write everything you feel.”

— Eric D. Grizzle

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands,

— Ronald Dworkin

Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating.

— Robert B. Weide

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.

— Marlon Wayans