Writing Quotes · Page 435

“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.”

— Charles Baudelaire

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

— Heinrich Heine

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

— Walter Mosley

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

— Leon Uris

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Whatever's going to happen was already written and no man can change that.”

— Kareem Abdul Rahman

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

— Vladimir Lenin

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a…

— MacKenzie Scott

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half…

— Omar Khayyám

“I want to write the story of my life to suit me. I want to see the world without restrictions. I want…

— Amy A. Bartol

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent…

— Ben Fountain

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them…

— Kate Atkinson

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

— F. L. Lucas

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret…

— John O'Hara

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works…

— Jane Austen

In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com…

— Jon Meacham

It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be.…

— Wentworth Miller

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat…

— Rumer Godden

Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to…

— Marilynne Robinson

In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human…

— William Graham Sumner

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

— Kaavya Viswanathan

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

— Germany Kent

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

— Bill Kurtis

“I wear a helmet when I write, because if you’re doing it right, writing is dangerous.”

— Jarod Kintz

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“I doubt if, after all, I’ll ever write anything again worth putting in print.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

— Kara Hayward

I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

— Jack Kilmer

I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer.

— Janet Evanovich

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

— Martin Amis

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

— Jon Foreman

“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.”

— Grace Metalious