Writing Quotes · Page 389

“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.”

— Anna Glazebrook

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

— Lewis Capaldi

There is no need to write about every fight that I have with my wife. That is not fair.

— Ranvir Shorey

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we…

— David Foster Wallace

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead…

— Elmore Leonard

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

— Andrea Gibson

“But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The”

— Anthony Trollope

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own…

— Anatoli Rybakov

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my…

— Gabrielle Aplin

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after…

— John Irving

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as…

— Jim Hodges

“People are tagged with other labels that point to the lowest-status group they belong to, as in "woman doctor" or "black writer,"…

— Allan G. Johnson

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of…

— Joseph Addison

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and…

— David O. Russell

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms…

— A. S. Byatt

“There is a writer in each one of us…it's only a matter of time before we put those emotions and experiences of…

— Ariana Miller

“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a…

— Aleksandr Voinov

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

— Win Butler

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

— Tori Spelling

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?”

— Mark Helprin

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

— Adam West

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

— Anonymous

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

— Jeffery Deaver

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

— Daphne Gottlieb

“Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

— Caroline Leavitt

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

— Shelley Berman

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.

— Jason Zebehazy

“Don’t wait for inspiration. She’s a fickle tart. Just write.”

— Ruth Bavetta