Writing Quotes · Page 43

“A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile”

— Lytton Strachey

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

— Elmore Leonard

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

— James Joyce

Everything starts with writing.

— Mel Brooks

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

— Amy Clampitt

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

— Justin Hayward

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

— Mindy Kaling

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

— Ruth Ware

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

— Neal Shusterman

“Life is much worse than anything I could write about.”

— M.C. O'Neill

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

— Biz Stone

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life…

— Layne Staley

“The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished…

— KC Woodworth

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden…

— George Lucas

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is…

— Philipp Meyer

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up…

— William Blake

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can…

— Joy Williams

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything…

— James Frey

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story…

— Whit Stillman

I am like your paper. You can write your name on me, scribble your answer upon me, use me to wipe away…

— Anonymous

I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've…

— Tama Janowitz

Different instructors' approaches may 'clash' with each other and result in confusion and unclear direction for the students. It's like attempting to…

— Igor Babailov

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen…

— Rajkumar Hirani

If it is your assignment to write copy for a product or service that you really don’t have a feel for, then…

— Joseph Sugarman

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem…

— Suzanne Collins

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

— Marley Dias

Writing is something I can do by myself.

— Peter Coyote

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

“If you don't like my story,write your own”

— Chinua Achebe

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

— Steven Berkoff

“A writer is a writer when he says he is.”

— Steven Pressfield

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty