Writing Quotes · Page 440

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

— Brent Runyon

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

— John Grisham

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

— Andrew McAleer

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

— Max Lucado

I want to write music that actually matters and to be able to make a difference through song.

— Jen Ledger

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

— Kiran Desai

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

— Ayn Rand

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable…

— Ricky Gervais

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,…

— Hilary Mantel

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite…

— Princess Superstar

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good…

— Jim Bishop

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine…

— Jessie J

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how…

— Kendrick Lamar

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not…

— George Steiner

I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of…

— Geoff Johns

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you…

— Brenda Ueland

I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has…

— Gerald Seymour

“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which…

— Orson Scott Card

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going…

— Laura Wade

I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find…

— Paul Lynch

“You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but…

— Plato

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not…

— Haruki Murakami

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

— Natalie Dormer

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

— Stephen King

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

— William Goldman

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

— Anonymous

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

— Toby Jones

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing.

— Bob Mortimer

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

— James Russell Lowell

“The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.”

— Kay Kenyon

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

— Alan Moore

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

— Lewis Capaldi

“You’ll never be a writer if you hide from reality.”

— Charles Bukowski

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

— Cassandra Clare