Writing Quotes · Page 436

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

— Julia Ward Howe

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

— Alejandro Zambra

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

— Anna Kamienska

“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

— Erica Jong

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian…

— Margaret Mahy

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music…

— Anthony Hopkins

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of…

— James A. Michener

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And…

— Harrison Birtwistle

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future…

— Vinnie Vincent

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.…

— Tenesse Williams

“Unfortunately his urge to write had suddenly petered out and he did not know what to do with himself. He was not…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook…

— Virginia Woolf

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now…

— Will Oldham

They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband…

— Amanda Peet

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on…

— John Flansburgh

As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Writing a novel is a bit like making a sword. First, you take all the raw material and melt it down in…

— Robert Parry

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

— Peter Hedges

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

— Charlie Kaufman

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

— Madison Beer

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me…

— Sue Grafton

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

— Steven Zaillian

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

— Horace

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

— Hilton Als

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

I wanted to write music that would be around for a long time.

— John Waite

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

— Dan Payne

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I'm writing down your favorite things to show you that I've read your letters again.

— A Rocket To The Moon

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

— Sara Bareilles

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander