Writing Quotes · Page 429

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

— Alan Bennett

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

— Nicole Blackman

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

— Kabir Khan

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

— Jo Walton

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back…

— Will Shetterly

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated;…

— Jason Derulo

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I…

— Jonathan Lethem

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly…

— Jonathan Stalling

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room…

— Vince Clarke

We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a…

— Alex Wolff

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I…

— Derek Walcott

I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it…

— George Soros

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This…

— Jodi Picoult

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I…

— Bert Hellinger

“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is…

— Emilie Loring

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.…

— Marge Piercy

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found…

— George Saunders

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I…

— Stephen King

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

— Wilson Follett

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

“I may be a shit writer,’ I remember him saying once, ‘but I’m richer than any of the good ones.”

— William Boyd

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

No matter where I go, I never write the setlist until I'm at the venue.

— Beth Hart

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

— Jenna Blum

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”

— A.A. Patawaran

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

— Uzo Aduba

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

— Andrew Dice Clay

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

— Alexander Pope

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

— Raymond Carver

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton