Writing Quotes · Page 476

“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.”

— Jen Currin

“You are all the poetry I have written all the words I know I've heard”

— Tyler Kent White

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

— Ian Rankin

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

— Marilynne Robinson

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

— Kathryn Harrison

“I wanted to write about crazy people, but I realized I didn't understand my subject well enough.”

— Noir

“Why dwell on the past, when we have yet to write the future”

— P.A. Henley

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget…

— James Acaster

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look…

— Taylor Swift

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect…

— David Mitchell

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see…

— Uma Thurman

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to…

— Lord Chesterfield

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography…

— Emil Ruder

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same…

— Henry Rollins

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New…

— Leon Trotsky

I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time…

— Jenny Lawson

“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even…

— robert m drake

“The problem is that you don't always get to write your own story. You get written into some stories, and if ask…

— Brendan Kiely

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political…

— Michel Onfray

“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads,…

— Ron Brackin

“I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone…It might have happened…

— Katherine Paterson

I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the…

— Margaret Case Harriman

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

— Kelly Marie Tran

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

— Rachel Cusk

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

— Carl Reiner

“Having the courage to say the truth, unabashedly, is the hardest part of writing.”

— Carolyn Moncel

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

— Richard Peck

“Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about.”

— Samuel R. Delany

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

— Antony Beevor

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.

— Penny Junor

“We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.”

— Kevin Fuller

“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.”

— Julie Wright

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

— Tanya Saracho

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

— Lynda Barry