Writing Quotes · Page 384

It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.

— Ry Cooder

Before I turned my attention to acting and writing I was a model.

— Keeley Hazell

Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“There are no definite rules (in writing). You learn as you go.”

— Winna Efendi

Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer.

— Suleika Jaouad

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.

— Wesley Clark

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.

— John Grisham

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting,…

— Mike D

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while…

— Craig Ferguson

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters…

— Lucas Neff

“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.”

— Carla H. Krueger

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is…

— Kevin Sessums

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't…

— Lou Reed

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

— Susan Sontag

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

— William Shakespeare

John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary…

— Dick Vitale

After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him?…

— Sam McBratney

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I…

— Maya Angelou

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract…

— George A. Romero

“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the…

— George Boole

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How…

— Joan Didion

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

— Taiye Selasi

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

— Raymond Kethledge

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

— John Steinbeck

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

— Emilio Estevez

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

— Toni Cade Bambara

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

— Paul Dano

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

— Zadie Smith

“it is the violent poetry of times, written int he bllod of the youth”

— linda mendoza

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

— Cardinal Richelieu