Writing Quotes · Page 278

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

— John Grant

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

— Steve Lukather

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

— Jenna Bush

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

— Bruce Springsteen

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”

— Shakirah Bourne

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

— Margaret Mahy

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

— Sam Abell

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint…

— Alex Flinn

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how…

— Dick Cavett

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a…

— Ahmet Zappa

“When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that…

— Lauren Willig

In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are…

— Susan Wojcicki

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day.…

— Naomie Harris

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones…

— Bonnie Friedman

“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. "Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their…

— Diane Setterfield

Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is…

— Jerry Schatzberg

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster.…

— Mike Greenberg

“I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to…

— Lionel Shriver

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,…

— Brian Eno

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

“Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.”

— Kirsty-Anne Still

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

— Charles Stross

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

— Jillian Medoff

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

— Louis Walsh

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

I like having written better than I like having acted.

— Carrie Fisher

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

— Linda Tripp

I just did what any writer does, tried to listen to the characters, whether they're 18 or 80.

— Ol Parker

“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.”

— Benjamin Percy

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes the story is still missing because it's still waiting to be written.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

— Kevin Parker

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

— Paris Hilton