Writing Quotes · Page 459

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

“Writing? whatever you are writing about i support you...In my eyes you are talented - Rayvon L Browne”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Everything is written in this stone heart...can u please erase it ?

— Ritesh

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

— Nicola Roberts

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

— Gary Paulsen

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

— John Mulaney

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather…

— Ernest Hemingway

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and…

— Paul Simon

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as…

— Alok Mishra

“The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create…

— Orson Scott Card

“Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves…

— robert m drake

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

— Stuart Franklin

“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself…

— Joseph Conrad

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I…

— Philip Pullman

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and…

— Ida Tarbell

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Because I'm a Christian, when I write things are going to have a certain flavor. When you're writing songs you try to…

— Philip Bailey

For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I…

— William S. Burroughs

Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

— Claire Tomalin

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

— Sylvia Day

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

“I don’t want to write lines or be sent to the corner.”

— Sara Taylor Woods

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

— Lenny Henry

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

— Rakim

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

— Mohsin Hamid

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

— Harlan Ellison

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

— Pam Houston

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

— Elizabeth Reyes

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

— William Faulkner

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

— Rob Walton

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

— Francis Chan

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis