Writing Quotes · Page 5

“I think. I write. I am.”

— Himmilicious

I write every night.

— Jonathan Davis

I'm not a great writer.

— E. L. James

Writers are nerds.

— Shane Black

Write your name

— HugeLOL

I love writing sad songs.

— Noah Cyrus

“I write with my foot.”

— Ella Maillart

I love writing music.

— Mary Steenburgen

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

— Brian Lumley

I always love writing about children.

— Joanna Trollope

“Reading is my potent weapon to write”

— Angelison

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

— Victor LaValle

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

— Stephen King

Writing is a lonely process.

— Rajkumar Hirani

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

— William Faulkner

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

— Michael Connelly

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

— Anthony Liccione

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

— Joseph Wambaugh

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

— Elvis Presley

When you get written off, you might be the only person who believes in you.

— Geno Smith

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

— Sandra Brown

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why…

— William Gibson

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases…

— Garth Brooks

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to…

— Ariel Dorfman

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good…

— Paul Morrissey

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do…

— Mary Karr

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

— Alan Dean Foster

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it…

— Lewis Carroll

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,…

— Edward Gibbon

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join…

— Tom Robbins

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and…

— Gudjon Bergmann

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they…

— Diana Gabaldon

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I…

— Sarah Gerard