Writing Quotes · Page 453

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

— Gerry Mulligan

Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

— Roman Coppola

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

— Dennis Crowley

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

— Donald Harington

“He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.”

— John le Carré

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

— George Takei

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

— Baltasar Gracian

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

— Pankaj Kapur

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

— Wole Soyinka

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that…

— Walter Mosley

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make…

— Lev Grossman

I've been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender…

— James Joyce

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

— Natalie Dormer

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

— Sonny Bono

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it…

— Edmund White

Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something…

— Ronald Dworkin

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled…

— Robertson Davies

Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves…

— Anonymous

“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet…

— James Gleick

Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio…

— Robin Guthrie

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned…

— Gunter Grass

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short…

— Sylvia Plath

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

“If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.”

— Amaya Ellman

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

— Dana Gioia

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

— Patrick Süskind

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

— Todd Barry

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

— Michel Tournier

“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ”

— Jack Kerouac

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

— Alice Childress

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Peter De Vries

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

— Jennifer Crusie

“Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.”

— Mary M. Forbes