Writing Quotes · Page 356

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

— Bryan Konietzko

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

— Aphra Behn

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

— Chinua Achebe

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

— robert m drake

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

— Paul Beatty

“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.”

— Tiffany Madison

“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”

— Linda Nelson

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something…

— Benjamin Franklin

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an…

— Charlie Daniels

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things…

— Katie Melua

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great…

— Denis Leary

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as…

— Brian Kernighan

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And…

— Alexander Chee

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if…

— Muriel Barbery

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job,…

— Rob Schneider

“It is easy to see, however,―as has been indicated more than once by anarchist writers, and lately by the French professor, V.…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the…

— Simon Pegg

We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have…

— Joel Osteen

Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some…

— Jill Douglas

There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many…

— Jane Hawking

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

— Philip Selway

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke

“Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”

— Phillip Roth

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

— J. K. Rowling

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

— Oscar Wilde

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

— Anne Tyler

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“It's not interesting stuff that they're making up and writing, and that's why they're going down.”

— Sarah Palin

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

— David Gemmell

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.

— Ruston Kelly

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

— Nancy Mitford

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair