Writing Quotes · Page 273

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

— Stanley Elkin

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

— Jonny Lang

“His writing was quite jaunty and explicit—I should never”

— Anonymous

“There ain't no magic pen to get back what you lost.”

— Scott Weiland

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

— Ken Howard

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

— John Cheever

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

— Shaun Evans

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

— Maria Semple

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

— John Britt Daniel

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots…

— Christine Lavin

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read…

— Robert E. Howard

I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it…

— Dennis Cooper

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll…

— Matt LeBlanc

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing…

— Nicholas Sparks

“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.”

— George G. Williams

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to…

— William Golding

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the…

— Morris Gleitzman

My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not…

— Nick Tosches

I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's…

— Sondre Lerche

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop…

— Jay-Z

I remember my first agent telling me - because they found me as an actor, but I was probably more interested in…

— Chadwick Boseman

“Just as the universal family of gifted writers transcends national barriers, so is the gifted reader a universal figure, not subject to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me…

— Donna Leon

“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.”

— Pamelar Hickinson

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

— Andre Gide

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

— Nell Freudenberger

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

— Ang Lee

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.”

— Horace

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

— Frederic Raphael

I love carrying feelings, it brings out the best in my writings !!

— Glen Rambharack

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

— Anonymous

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein

“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”

— Jean Paul Sartre

I'm writin music..I think aloud when I think off loud.

— Wale

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang