Writing Quotes · Page 322

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

— Antonio Tabucchi

It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.”

— Christy Hall

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

— Katherine Ryan

“He sometimes keeps Her off of the sky, But then She teaches Him how to fly.”

— Bri Miller

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

— James Frey

“... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic.”

— Jonathan Oliver

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and…

— Judith Viorst

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War…

— Donald Miller

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent…

— Samantha Morton

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper…

— Adrian Mitchell

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader…

— Katherine Boo

“Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with…

— Michel de Montaigne

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they…

— Bill Hicks

“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness…

— robert m drake

I don't regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into…

— Jaap Stam

A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and…

— Robert Reed

“To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like…

— Italo Calvino

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a…

— David Hare

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open…

— Henry Rollins

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas,…

— Ricky Gervais

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt,…

— Paul Rudd

“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.”

— Joan G. Robinson

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

— Liza Campbell

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

— George Murray

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

— Teresa Mummert

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

“Poems are scars translated to written or spoken form.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

— Tomi Adeyemi

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

— Rachael Yamagata

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman

Your eyes will see the dawn of the day and the writing on the wall.

— Pantera

“No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!”

— Cathy Williams

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

— Jacqueline Susann

“A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell”

— Anonymous

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

— Khaled Hosseini