Writing Quotes · Page 493

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

— Chuck Klosterman

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

— E. B. White

“Coffee is for writing and tea is for editing. I don't know why but it just is.”

— C.E. Wilson

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

— Cate Blanchett

“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.”

— Paul Valéry

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

— Lisa Unger

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows…

— Lily Rabe

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…

— Ezra Pound

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to…

— Sara Zarr

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I…

— Margaret Atwood

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's…

— Seamus Heaney

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of…

— Irwin Shaw

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

— Anonymous

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think…

— David Nicholls

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had…

— Anthony

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have…

— Mary Oliver

I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs…

— Meiko

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen…

— Mara Wilson

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way…

— Chrissie Hynde

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life…

— Anais Nin

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

— Amy Clampitt

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

— Peter Sotos

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

— Sigrid

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

— Nina Bawden

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

— Seymour Hersh

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Clarence Day

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

— Rajkumar Hirani

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

— Raymond Aron