Writing Quotes · Page 346

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

I'll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic.

— Rebel Wilson

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

— Samuel Goldwyn

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

— Anonymous

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

— Eric Church

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

— Young Thug

Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.

— Alexandre Lacazette

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be…

— Roger Avary

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

— A. S. Byatt

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have…

— Mohsin Hamid

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Vitamin D,” Stevie said. “You need it.” “You don’t know that,” he said. “I want to eat my meat in my room…

— Maureen Johnson

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all…

— Per Petterson

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming…

— Maggie Smith

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

— William Soutar

“I write that I will learn a language and take up the piano. Margaret can teach me. This might help her get…

— M.J. Hyland

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

— Marshall McLuhan

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows…

— Ernest Lehman

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying…

— Damian Barr

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the…

— Anthony Bourdain

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only…

— Thomas Paine

Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own…

— John Naber

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

— Merle Haggard

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.”

— Italo Calvino

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

— Chinua Achebe

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

— Keifer Thompson

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

— Laurie Simmons

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

— Richard Hugo

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

— Warren Buffett

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.

— Nancy Horan

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

— David Del Tredici

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

— Francis Schaeffer

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys