Writing Quotes · Page 335

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

— Robert Ben Garant

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

— Robert Frost

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

— Ray Bradbury

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to…

— Gertrude Stein

I keep a notebook on my bedside table and write poetry every night before I go to sleep. It's been something I've…

— Lexi Underwood

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must…

— Samuel Johnson

At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which…

— Heather Hart

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk…

— Julia Glass

“There are only three truths. That which can be known. That which can never be known. The third, which concerns the writer…

— Miguel Syjuco

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails…

— Charles Bukowski

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I…

— Laura Benanti

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a…

— Samuel Johnson

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be…

— Chespirito

“In 1991, while talking with writer Ed Gross, Fred Freiberger summed up his agony over Star Trek with a joke, saying, “I…

— Marc Cushman

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there…

— Ben Marcus

“It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like…

— Hilary Mantel

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a…

— John Carpenter

“Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door…

— William H. Gass

I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full…

— Ryan Lewis

I like to write paper mail...nobody does that anymore...with my pen pals. John Doe from the band X played my dad on…

— Hilarie Burton

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

— Kathryn Harrison

“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”

— Margot Livesey

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

— Stephen J. Cannell

“London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the”

— William Shakespeare

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”

— CJ Roberts

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

— Richard Flanagan

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.

— Tapani Bagge

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

“Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.”

— Paul Raymond Martin

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

— Hunter Hayes