Writing Quotes · Page 42

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

— Brendan Coyle

You write your life story by the choices you make,

— Helen Mirren

Slow and in a good writing

— Antonio Machado

I don't like to write boring books.

— Frank Peretti

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“I write there for I promote!”

— Heather Briggs

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

— Erica Jong

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”

— Mo

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

— Farrah Abraham

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

“To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality”

— Samuel Colbran

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”

— Robert Galbraith

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full…

— John Dufresne

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of…

— Jen Kirkman

“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they…

— Charbel Tadros

“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in…

— Paris Hilton

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see…

— Joan Didion

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've…

— Rae Morris

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and…

— Misha Green

I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is…

— Dave Chappelle

I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any…

— Sylvia Plath

It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me…

— Rian Johnson

“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls…

— Mark David Gerson

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to…

— Adam Ross

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out…

— Johnny Vegas

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in…

— Judy Blume

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

— Brooke Hogan

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

— Herman Koch

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written

— Edwin Louis Cole

You write in order to change the world.

— James A. Baldwin

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

— Eric Hoffer

I truly appreciate this post. Keep writing.

— Cheap

If I'm not acting, I'm writing.

— Brett Goldstein

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

— Marsha Norman