Writing Quotes · Page 472

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

— Joseph Wambaugh

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

— Amy Joy

“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”

— John Katzenbach

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

— Elmore Leonard

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

— Alice Childress

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this…

— Barry Lopez

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't…

— Ben Dolnick

“A writer who’s a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesn’t much care about the subject,…

— Sterling Lord

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned…

— Gao Xingjian

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps. At the…

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach…

— William Zinsser

“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they…

— psyche roxas-mendoza

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one…

— Alain de Botton

We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them…

— J. C. Watts

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…

— Fredric Jameson

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when…

— Greg Lake

Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable…

— Fred Haslam

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

— Joanne Harris

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

— Ezra Pound

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

— Aristide Briand

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

— Lily Allen

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

— Jenny Holzer

“... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.”

— Katherine Mansfield

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

— Lee Ranaldo

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

— Anonymous

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

— Sylvester Stallone

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

— Jim Beaver