Writing Quotes · Page 258

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

— Ghostface Killah

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

— John Cheever

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

— Abi Morgan

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

— Matthea Harvey

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the…

— Nora Roberts

My father, Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry but he did not want me, or my younger…

— Tinnu Anand

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get…

— Dave East

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car.…

— Dorianne Laux

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

— Max Lucado

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument…

— Saul Bellow

After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of…

— Mike McCready

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is…

— Campbell McGrath

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises…

— John Adams

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times…

— Denis Waitley

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York,…

— Martin Filler

A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free…

— Frank J. Prial

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's…

— Lucinda Williams

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy,…

— Gary Shteyngart

“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age…

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

“Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.”

— M. Kirin

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

— Anonymous

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

— Jonny Lang

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

— Laurence Sterne

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

— Matt Haig

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

“To show don’t tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan”

— Gillian Flynn

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

— George Fernandes

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

— Mary MacLane

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

— Megan Chance

“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.”

— Sara Sheridan

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin