Writing Quotes · Page 421

“I don’t charge for the words I write. I charge for joining them together.”

— Daniel Kemp

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”

— Anna Quindlen

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

— Robert Black

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

— Dorothy Parker

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

— Lamont Dozier

I am shaped by my community - and I have been supported in my ambition to be an actor and storyteller.

— Lily Gladstone

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

— Jan Morris

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,…

— James Altucher

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from…

— Anonymous

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself…

— Wilbur Smith

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want…

— Patricia Highsmith

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an…

— Dee Rees

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the…

— Gary Ross

“Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things…

— Jeanette Winterson

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told…

— Fay Weldon

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'…

— Ruth Glick

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths…

— Ernest Hemingway

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples…

— Fleur Adcock

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night…

— Jason Mraz

Reading the pilot script, it was written in a very clear way, like the feel of the show, the mockumentary. And Mitch…

— Michael Cera

The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It's a strange kind of hybrid of the…

— Brent Spiner

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer…

— Maz Jobrani

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little…

— Lorrie Moore

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

— Patrick Stump

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

— Jim Morrison

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

— Dodie Smith

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

— Jack Vance

Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.

— Ken Loach

“Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.”

— Rodney Richards

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

— Ernest Hemingway