Writing Quotes · Page 372

“Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history.”

— Evan Ricafort

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”

— Glen Duncan

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

“Description is the color in the canvas of your story.”

— M. Kirin

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

— Robert A. Heinlein

To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.

— Martina Navratilova

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

— Carol Leifer

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century…

— Jonathan Lethem

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after…

— Anita Diament

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is…

— Joni Mitchell

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running…

— Patrick White

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but…

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and…

— Noel Gallagher

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with…

— Elon Musk

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm…

— Karen Traviss

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good…

— Anonymous

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would…

— Akhil Sharma

“The war was undoubtedly the most profound and inescapable influence on writers in the 1920s. But it was far from the only…

— Paul Brody

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill…

— Cynthia Voigt

Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition…

— Anita Sarkeesian

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or…

— John Hodgman

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think…

— Vito Acconci

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

— Bruce Joel Rubin

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

— Lena Dunham

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

— Linda Lael Miller

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

— Wilfrid Sheed

“I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.”

— Natalya Vorobyova

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

— David Labrava

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

“I only write when I am falling in love, or falling apart.”

— Rudy F

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

— Horace

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

— Russell Banks

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

— Judd Apatow