Writing Quotes · Page 422

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

— Roald Dahl

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

— Jonah Hill

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

— Andy Rooney

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

— Gore Vidal

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

— Wendell Phillips

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell…

— Amy Poehler

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go,…

— Rob Bell

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that…

— Isabel Allende

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

— Josh Billings

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I…

— Colbie Caillat

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would…

— Anonymous

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you…

— John McPhee

“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of…

— Natalie Goldberg

“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than…

— Kathryn Mattingly

My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another…

— Stephen Karam

There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I…

— Mindy Kaling

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different…

— Mark Hoppus

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your…

— Anonymous

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

— Frank Sinatra

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

— Tara Westover

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

— Kendrick Lamar

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

— A. S. Byatt

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

— Ann Voskamp

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh

Indulging in the inspiration that you have written within the words..

— Raghib Clitso

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

— Oscar Wilde

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling

“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.”

— Darynda Jones

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

— Matthew Reilly