Writing Quotes · Page 277

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

— Michael Rostovtzeff

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.”

— Ariel Levy

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

— H. L. Mencken

“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.”

— Donald Miller

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very…

— Jesmyn Ward

“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all…

— Eudora Welty

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can…

— Ralph Fletcher

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of…

— Anonymous

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your…

— Anonymous

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

— Jeanine Basinger

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to…

— Wim Wenders

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms…

— Hilary Mantel

Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that…

— Christian Burns

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude…

— Maurice Blanchot

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming…

— Jonas Blue

Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off…

— Allison Moorer

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and…

— Kristin Hannah

“I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of…

— Chandler Burr

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

— Toni Cade Bambara

“Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.”

— William Zinsser

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

— Cary Fukunaga

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

— Mary-Kate Olsen

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

— Sharon Cameron

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

— E. B. White

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

— Anonymous

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm happy when I'm acting, or singing, or dancing, or tv hosting, or writing. I've done it all.

— Scheana Shay

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

— Adriana Trigiani