Writing Quotes · Page 415

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

— Red Smith

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

— Bryan Burrough

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

— Jessamyn West

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

— Sloan Wilson

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa

Its hard to hide your stories when its written on your body..

— Patience

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

— Irwin Shaw

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea…

— DJ Spooky

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Prompts are like lingerie for the brain. They stimulate, excite and produce uplifting results. -Christine M.”

— Debra R. Sanchez

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises…

— John P. Marquand

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff.…

— Jon Meacham

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first…

— Steve Martin

There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and…

— Jim Lampley

“As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one…

— Elena Ferrante

“When Balzac was working, his writing schedule was brutal: He ate a light dinner at 6:00 P.M., then went to bed. At…

— Mason Currey

The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine.…

— Leah Hager Cohen

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't…

— Michael Azerrad

“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these…

— Langston Hughes

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one…

— Woody Harrelson

“Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. I got over the loss…

— Patti Smith

I thought of the scene while writing scenes with Rebecca [Hall] and wrote it like an opening montage of showing where someone…

— Nicole Holofcener

“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.”

— robert m drake

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

— Umberto Eco

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

— James A. Baldwin

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch

I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.

— Leo Sayer

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

— Jim Lehrer