Writing Quotes · Page 295

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Just don't be afraid to be yourself and write whatever comes out.

— Skrillex

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

— J. B. Priestley

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

— Robert M. Pirsig

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we…

— Frank Peretti

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

— Shannon Hale

“This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and…

— Chila Woychik

I write mainly on trains because when I'm at home I'll be making YouTube videos or editing or just sitting down having…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never…

— Mariah Carey

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you…

— Edward Hirsch

It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you…

— Anais Nin

I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect,…

— Loung Ung

“They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve. THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer?…

— Steven Pressfield

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own…

— George Washington

“But my subconscious mind--the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain--could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott…

— Sara Nelson

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. And…

— Mandy Moore

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the…

— John Patrick Shanley

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

— Samuel Daniel

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

— Sheila Heti

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

— Diane Ackerman

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

— Courtney Barnett

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

— Lillian Hellman

When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

— Jerry Lewis

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

— Warren Littlefield

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

— David Mamet