Writing Quotes · Page 307

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

— Nina Simone

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

— Walter Martin

“Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.”

— Vijay Kedia

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

— Chelsea Cain

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three…

— Pandora Poikilos

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

— Sloan Wilson

Text books are just intelligence written down in a boring way; hands on activities are intelligence at work

— Mung-Hua Shen

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to…

— Christopher Priest

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell…

— Ruth Rendell

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that…

— John Darnielle

“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to…

— T.J. Mihaila

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and…

— Jared Diamond

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.…

— Jon Meacham

“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual…

— Nova Ren Suma

“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently…

— Leah Hager Cohen

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of…

— Anonymous

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…

— Edwidge Danticat

I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot…

— Neil Druckmann

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it…

— Todd Haynes

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only…

— Teri Garr

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— Anonymous

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

— Mitch Lucker

“If what I write is perfect, I'd rob myself the thrill of improvement.”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

— Paul Theroux

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.

— William Allingham

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

— Michael Koryta

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

— David Bezmozgis

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

— Virginia Woolf

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

— Chris Cleave

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

— Siri Hustvedt

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

— Roald Dahl