Writing Quotes · Page 488

بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine

— Ghassan Kanafani

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

— Tom Barbash

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

“Writers never retire; they just keep sharpening their pencils!”

— Diana Savastano

“We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.”

— Lori Jamison Rog

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

— Gene Wolfe

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

— Roald Dahl

“Writing gives you a reach to the stars, That reach means there is NO CEILING!!!!!!!!”

— Maija Monreaux

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

— Mooji

“he repudiated the writings of the Apostle Paul," whom he considered the (first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus”

— Thomas Jefferson

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…

— Elmore Leonard

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are…

— Melissa Febos

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is…

— Marjane Satrapi

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…

— Paul Theroux

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because…

— Smokey Robinson

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at…

— Michael Arndt

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

— Laura Benanti

Disappointment s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially…

— Ash Sweeney

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The…

— Jasper Fforde

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left…

— Tom Van Vleck

“Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum "Write about what you know." But whether you're writing about people or dragons,…

— John Gardner

I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw…

— Nicole Krauss

A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture…

— Stephen King

Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.…

— Norman Mailer

I believe if you write it down it's more likely to stick in the memory.

— T. J. Watt

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

— Max Cavalera

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

— Patton Oswalt

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

— Sarah Pinborough

“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I. Writing@55”

— Trice McIntyre

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

— Alexander Pope

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

— Irwin Shaw

“I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.”

— Russ Lippitt

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

— Sampha

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

— Elif Batuman

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

— Nora Roberts