Writing Quotes · Page 287

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

— Nora Roberts

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

— Don Cheadle

My first sketch-writing class was with Kevin Allison from 'The State.' It was so cool.

— Grace Helbig

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

— Susan Sontag

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

— Mavis Gallant

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...

— Phil Collins

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck

— John Steinbeck

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

— Marti Noxon

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a…

— Marilyn Hacker

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be.…

— David Longstreth

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who…

— Alice Mattison

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the…

— Charles Bukowski

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm…

— Marti Noxon

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling…

— Laurie Foos

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;…

— Dorothy Day

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— Salman Rushdie

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything…

— Kate Atkinson

I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's…

— Ray Romano

Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever…

— Bao Phi

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

— Terry Pratchett

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

— Oliver Herford

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

— Quentin Tarantino

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

— Francis Bacon

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

— Nick Flynn

Good actors can do anything, and there'll be amazing writers who are willing to write for everyone.

— Jonathan Bailey

“Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”

— Isabel Greenberg

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

— William Zinsser

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

— Willie Stargell

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

— Bill Barich

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

Writing about 'What is art?' is not something I ever thought I'd be doing.

— Hannah Fry

“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”

— Amit Kalantri

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary— too easy to rewrite.”

— Hiroshi Sakurazaka