Writing Quotes · Page 480

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

— Pamela Stephenson

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

— Raymond Chandler

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

— Nick Cave

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

— Hallie Ephron

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to…

— Linwood Barclay

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under…

— Taylor Swift

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an…

— Michael Hersch

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break…

— Elizabeth Moon

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly…

— Daniel Handler

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,…

— Philip Gerard

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the…

— Robert Plant

“My #writing isn't a hobby; it's not a distraction nor escape from reality, neither is it a waste of time. My writing…

— Diem Burden

I am a poet writing of my pain. I am a person living a life of shame. I am your daughter hiding…

— Ritu Ghatourey

All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.…

— David Gerrold

In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in…

— Justin Timberlake

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.…

— Newt Gingrich

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as…

— Howard Jacobson

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering…

— Francine Prose

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

— Amitava Kumar

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

— Julian Barnes

Forever prepared to bleed what resembles my soul, bloody black ink.

— Needa Muy

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

“What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past. What you write today, will be echoed in the future.”

— Toba Beta

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

— Anonymous

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

— Alison Brie

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”

— Candace Bowen Early