Writing Quotes · Page 407

“Don't aspire to be a writer, because you are already a writer”

— Clara Wake

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

— Zoe Foster Blake

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

— Steve Rushin

“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.”

— Jenny Hayworth

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to…

— Anonymous

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.”

— Brandi L. Bates

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away…

— Amy Tan

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

— Jess Walter

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…

— Paul Di Filippo

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will…

— Tisca Chopra

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel…

— Raha Moharrak

“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you…

— Paul Engle

“I’m typing away, wondering why I had that Pepsi Throwback at such a late hour. Caffeine is a compulsion. Art is an…

— Chila Woychik

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part…

— Marcia Clark

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from…

— Trevor Paglen

When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or…

— Nat Hentoff

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

— Diane Mott Davidson

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

— Alice Hoffman

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

— Patrick Dennis

There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

— Mick Hucknall

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

— Leni Zumas

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

— Doris Betts

“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.”

— C.G. Coppola

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod