Writing Quotes · Page 270

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

— Izzy Stradlin

When I was writing 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' I knew the perfect Bajrangi Bhaijaan would be Salman.

— Kabir Khan

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

— Octavia Spencer

“The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.”

— Ron Chernow

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going…

— Gemma Arterton

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

— Anonymous

One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there's a well-defined…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter…

— Anne Enright

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that…

— David Plotz

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make…

— Barbara Hambly

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter…

— Spiro T. Agnew

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive…

— Jack Kerouac

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we…

— John Irving

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet…

— Terry Pratchett

I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to…

— Suzy Menkes

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,…

— Laurence Sterne

I've been rapping and writing since junior high school, just having fun with it as a hobby. Then I got signed to…

— Jacki-O

“In order to be written into History; one must first change it.”

— Darrius Garrett

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

— Confucius

“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.”

— Kelly Moran

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

— Rayne Hall

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

— Jewel

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

— Hilary Hahn

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

— Judd Apatow

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

— Lucy Hale

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

— Richard Steele

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

— David Crosby

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”

— Heywood Broun

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp