Writing Quotes · Page 418

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

— Samuel R. Delany

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

— Wally Amos

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

— Natalie Goldberg

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

— David Foster Wallace

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”

— Thomas M. Cirignano

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

— James Wolcott

My advice is that it's easier to write than direct. If you have an interest in writing, write. You might as well…

— Barry Levinson

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

— Lee Klein

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

— Rebel Wilson

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

— Thomas Malthus

My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and…

— Michael K. Williams

I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you.…

— Frank Peretti

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

— Douglas McGrath

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian…

— William Butler Yeats

I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying…

— Seth Rogen

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved…

— Danielle Steel

I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA…

— Jenny Zhang

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,…

— James J. Kilpatrick

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too…

— Lawrence Osborne

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government…

— Jan Brewer

“When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no…

— Sharon Weil

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except…

— Wolcott Gibbs

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

— Anonymous

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

— Gloria Estefan

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

— Douglas Adams

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

— Dana Gioia

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

— Freya Ridings

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

— Bell Hooks

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

— Leonard Cohen

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

— Richard Rodriguez

I write my story in my books, It show that your name filled in my books

— Anonymous

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

— Anonymous

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

— Suzi Quatro

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

— James Patterson