Writing Quotes · Page 448

“For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.”

— Al Stone

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

— Dolly Parton

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

— Vidyasagar

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”

— Ranata Suzuki

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

— Natalie Dormer

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

— Aleister Crowley

I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I…

— Ian Mcewan

My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I…

— Wole Soyinka

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most…

— Barbara Crampton

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

— Robert Browning

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more…

— Sheila Heti

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

— Erica Jong

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push…

— Larry Ellison

“Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value…

— Wil Zeus

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research…

— Amy Waldman

I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January,…

— Max Lucado

“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing.…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in…

— Pankaj Mishra

I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after…

— Lore Segal

When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of…

— Lucy Christopher

“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite…

— Neil Gaiman

To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that…

— Philip Kitcher

“He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.”

— Paula McLain

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

— Tom Kenny

I hope somebody gives me money for writing and releasing songs.

— CMAT

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

— Heather Donahue

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand.

— @efiosiugbore

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

— Adam Rapp

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

— William Shakespeare

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

— Ian Dury

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

— Cheryl Hayashi

Im singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”

— Roxane Gay