Writing Quotes · Page 336

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

— Tim O'Brien

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

— Greg Gutfeld

“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.”

— Tom Grimes

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

Life: nothing is pre written & nothing can't be re-written! so live the best & leave the worst.

— Nishan Panwar

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't…

— Paul F. Tompkins

“You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace…

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're…

— Vince Gill

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.…

— David Guterson

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a…

— Troy Donahue

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should…

— Madame de La Fayette

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from…

— Franz Kafka

We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,…

— Edwidge Danticat

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with…

— Robert Stone

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it…

— Kathleen Hanna

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say…

— Cameron Crowe

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…

— William Shakespeare

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.…

— Donald Miller

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to…

— Raymond Carver

Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like,…

— Dave Franco

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

— Bin Ramke

“The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

— Bryan Adams

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

— Franz Kafka

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

— Edie Brickell

I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.

— Steve Slaunwhite

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

— Dede Gardner

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

— Malcolm X

“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.”

— Greg Sushinsky

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

— Bridget of Sweden

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

— Samuel Johnson

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.”

— Diane Ackerman