Writing Quotes · Page 425

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

— Mitch Lucker

“If what I write is perfect, I'd rob myself the thrill of improvement.”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

— Paul Theroux

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

— Ben Mezrich

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

— Naomi Novik

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'll sit for a couple of hours and write and do rewrites, and then I'll read and then I have a little…

— Jacob Elordi

“I do no damage. This is damage, this.” He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. “I can’t read your writing, but…

— Hilary Mantel

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge…

— Gabrielle Zevin

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs…

— Joseph Addison

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my…

— John Milton

“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy…

— Henry Watson Fowler

By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work…

— Clive Barker

As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But…

— Greta Gerwig

“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my…

— Kate Forsyth

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside…

— Barbara Hamby

“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to…

— Hermann Hesse

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly…

— Jeff MacNelly

“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you…

— David Foster Wallace

While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication…

— Fran Lebowitz

“you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school ..”

— The 1975

“If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.”

— K.M. Logan

“What's the difference between and actor and a writer? When a writer yells "LOOK AT ME!", nobody does.”

— Cain S. Latrani

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

— Lin Biao

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

— A. J. Liebling

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

— Anna Quindlen

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

— Kathleen Madigan

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

— Carl Reiner

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

— John Ciardi

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

— Henry David Thoreau

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

— Hannibal Buress

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

— Hunter S. Thompson