Writing Quotes · Page 301

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

— Billy Joel

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.

— Michelle L Buckley

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

— Oscar Wilde

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

— Truman Capote

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

— Yann Tiersen

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

— Peter Morgan

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that…

— Sarah Dessen

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty…

— Peter Schjeldahl

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make…

— Garrison Keillor

I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it…

— Beth Hart

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to…

— Gillian Flynn

I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew…

— Gracie Abrams

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly…

— Deb Caletti

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult…

— Frederick Seidel

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept…

— Lisa See

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases…

— H. L. Mencken

“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the…

— Brenda Ueland

Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.…

— Taner Edis

Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers-…

— William Carlos Williams

you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at…

— Susan Cain

What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own…

— Harlan Coben

It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning…

— Beatrice Miller

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

— Evangeline Lilly

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

— Linda Bradford Raschke

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

— Gloria Estefan

“The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

— Franz Kafka

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

— Lorin Stein

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”

— Shabbeer Ahmed

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

— Andrew Dice Clay