Writing Quotes · Page 34

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Only God can write the end of your story.”

— Mitch Albom

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I live to write but, I read to live.”

— Gail Gentry

“You can't write a book in Heaven”

— Don Newman

I don't write books inadvertently.

— A. N. Wilson

Bad spellers of the world untie!

— Adam Savage

Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger..

— Natalie Goldberg

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

— Steven Pressfield

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

— James Salter

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

— David Guterson

“Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.”

— Ana Patrick

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want…

— John Green

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project…

— Ernest Hemingway

I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on…

— Sam Fender

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative…

— Gary Shteyngart

There's a lot of times where we'll come up with something on the spot, and the writers will catch it in the…

— Aubrey Plaza

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of…

— Phil Knight

I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In…

— Austin Grossman

I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I…

— David Mccandless

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,…

— Roberto Bolaño

I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in…

— Colum McCann

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now…

— Aimee Mullins

The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne…

— Christine Jennings

“Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually…

— Andrew James Pritchard

I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from…

— Johannes Kepler

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

— Erskine Caldwell

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

A clear sentence is no accident.

— William Zinsser

Never throw up on an editor.

— Ellen Datlow

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Writing opens the door to imagination.”

— Joe Evener

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote

You must write for the waste basket.

— Johnny Mercer