Writing Quotes · Page 354

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

— Elissa Schappell

“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”

— Edward Abbey

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

— Jonathan Weeks

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

— Hunter Tylo

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

— Lesley Gore

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane…

— Joanne Harris

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly…

— Nicole Krauss

“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very…

— Malebo Sephodi

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because…

— Harvey Pekar

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got…

— Charles Baudelaire

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by…

— Alice Mattison

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and…

— Ali Wong

An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become.…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist…

— Michael Buble

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English…

— Andrea Barrett

“She grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn't write a single word for days, but then, I let the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work…

— Charlotte Eriksson

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would…

— Douglas Adams

To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see…

— Neil Gaiman

That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped…

— Jimmy Page

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck

“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

— David Friedman

Two weeks before Owen Hart's death I objected in writing to the obscenity and the safety.

— Sable

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

— John Jakes

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

— Hugh Elliot

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

— Neal Stephenson

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

“As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.”

— Heidi Ruby Miller

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

— Harvey Fierstein

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley