Writing Quotes · Page 473

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

“and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been”

— George Gordon Byron

“Sleep: a time to tell yourself stories not yet written.”

— Philippe Lechermeier

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”

— Jonathan Price

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it…

— Tracie Podger

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

— Anonymous

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

— Wayne Shorter

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for…

— Twyla Tharp

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You…

— Jennifer Weiner

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a…

— Tom Wolfe

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete…

— R. L. Stine

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if…

— Eva Mendes

“That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a…

— Martine Bailey

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.…

— Gertrude Atherton

Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas,…

— Rita Moreno

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of…

— Cynthia Ozick

There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.…

— Sandra Cisneros

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on…

— Upton Sinclair

“I used to believe, when I was 'just' a reader, that writers, because they wrote books where truth was found, because they…

— Julian Barnes

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

— Julia Quinn

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

— Tom Skerritt

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

— Josip Novakovich

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

— Sabrina Carpenter

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.”

— John Irving

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— Brian Kernighan

I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

— Benji Hughes

“Those who write the whole nights, keep a nation awake.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal”

— Colin W. Hill

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor