Writing Quotes · Page 308

“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.”

— Arianna Huffington

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

— Jon Hamm

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

— William Stafford

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

— Ernest Gaines

I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.

— Sudha Murty

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

— Roy Peter Clark

“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)”

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant…

— E. M. Forster

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)…

— Sylvia Plath

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.…

— Woody Allen

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more…

— Fred Brooks

“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott…

— Nava Atlas

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a…

— Charles Bukowski

“ Dialogue Should Move the Story Forward, Provide Information, or Enhance Characterization, Unless You’re Really Witty The best dialogue can do all…

— Anne Marble

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I…

— William S. Burroughs

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with…

— Jonah Goldberg

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste…

— Charles M. Blow

“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

— Samuel Eliot Morison

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

— John Milius

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

— John Ciardi

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

— Carl Reiner

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

— Lin Biao

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

— A. J. Liebling

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

— Anna Quindlen

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

— Kathleen Madigan

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.”

— K.M. Logan

“What's the difference between and actor and a writer? When a writer yells "LOOK AT ME!", nobody does.”

— Cain S. Latrani