Writing Quotes · Page 323

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

— Janet Evanovich

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

— Jessica Sorensen

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

— Anonymous

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

— Christian McKay

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

— Mat Kearney

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely…

— William Zinsser

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing…

— Kim Gordon

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You…

— Robert Barry

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

— Megan Boyle

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet?…

— Anne Tyler

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone…

— Daniel Goleman

I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't,…

— Frank Zappa

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very…

— Jess Row

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on…

— Chevy Stevens

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm…

— Mayer Hawthorne

“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and…

— Annie Dillard

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery…

— Adriana Trigiani

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My…

— Michelle Gagnon

It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.…

— Jean-Pierre Serre

“The age old idea of human dignity comes to apply even to the indigent, even to the slaves, even to immigrants, now…

— John Gardner

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they…

— Ice Cube

“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”

— robert m drake

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

— Debbie Millman

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

— Katherine Mansfield

“Books are uniquely portable magic. By Stephen King”

— Reggi allderr

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

— Maurice Sendak

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

— Joseph Brodsky

There were times in the writing of Ninth House' where I thought, have I gone too far?'

— Leigh Bardugo

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

— Frank Harte

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

— Kiese Laymon

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

— Kelsea Ballerini