Writing Quotes · Page 317

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

— Lauren Daigle

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Don't let life be what you read; Let it be what you write.”

— Samantha Santiago

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

— Chris Claremont

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

— Keshia Chante

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

— Ann Coulter

If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out…

— Louis C. K

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many…

— Andrew Sullivan

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.…

— Paul Stanley

“I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make…

— Jeanette Winterson

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out…

— Daniel Alarcon

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the…

— Surya Das

I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override…

— Marilynne Robinson

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for…

— Karan Mahajan

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start…

— Jeff Bollow

“She (Tamara Thorne) has this fascinating way of wrapping herself around the things I write and bringing out the best in my…

— Alistair Cross

Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing,…

— Charlyne Yi

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with…

— Suzy Kassem

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

— Will Self

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

— Rick Reilly

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

— Renee Watson

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

— Edward Young

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

— Howard Nemerov

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

— Hisaye Yamamoto

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

I get to be creative and to write: two of my favorite things.

— Louise Roe

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

— Paul Simon

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

— Steve Earle

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

— Eliot Spitzer

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

— Arda Collins

“I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.”

— Mark Twain

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

— Julie Plec