Writing Quotes · Page 479

I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge.

— Emily Giffin

“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”

— John R. Erickson

I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but maybe also a book.

— Mukul Dev

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

— Ellie Kemper

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,

— Laura Linney

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

“Though I believe it's beyond the power of any mortal to completely relieve my prose of typos.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the…

— Ludacris

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the…

— Joel Edgerton

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…

— Lorrie Moore

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes…

— Dan Chaon

When things were not going right for me, writing was the only thing that kept my equilibrium right, it has always been…

— Aditya Dhar

“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest…

— Rebecca Rosenblum

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around…

— Corey Taylor

“I was doing an interview with someone who had done very interesting profiles on some of America's greatest authors, and I noticed…

— Mike Rich

There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together…

— Dana Goldstein

One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to…

— Gregory Allen Howard

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might…

— Walker Percy

Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish,…

— Hal Elrod

It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty.…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

— Lily Collins

“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”

— Daphne Athas

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

— Jules Renard

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

“If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”

— Toba Beta

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

— Kevin Sessums

“You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good…

— Jayce O'Neal

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

— Firoozeh Dumas

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

— Sam Altman

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

— Don Mattingly

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

— Gustave Flaubert

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

— Scott Turow