Writing Quotes · Page 284

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

— Thomas Huxley

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

— Paul Haggis

“about that too, ma’am,” he said, writing up her citation, “but what made”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

— Maeve Binchy

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

— James Lee Burke

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

— Angela Alioto

I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.

— Ariel Levy

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

“There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You…

— Kate Inglis

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.…

— Carmen Boullosa

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives…

— Charles Ghigna

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state…

— Shereen El Feki

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC…

— Eric Allin Cornell

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or…

— Patrick O'Brian

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself…

— Kevin Barry

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake…

— Haruki Murakami

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country…

— Tracy K. Smith

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the…

— Ted Rall

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and…

— Mark Twain

I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

— Rachel Zucker

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

I appreciate you sharing this article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Social

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

— Sigrid Nunez

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

— Cass McCombs

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

— R. Kelly

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

— James Taylor

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

— Harlan Ellison

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

— Phil Hartman

“For dramatic variation, write a sentence with subject and verb near the end.”

— Roy Peter Clark

“When you write, you should put your skin on the table.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

— Stephen Sondheim