Writing Quotes · Page 502

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

— Geddy Lee

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

— Toni Morrison

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

— A. Lee Martinez

Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

— Harold Brodkey

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

— Barbara Greene

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

— Marc Bolan

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

— Hallie Burnett

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in…

— Ntozake Shange

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors…

— Rebecca Serle

“I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most…

— Katie Kiesler

“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.” [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard,…

— Max Frisch

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda…

— Kimbra

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell…

— Robertson Davies

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

— Clare Balding

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage…

— Stevie Wonder

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort…

— Alanis Morissette

“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not…

— Jonathan Gottschall

There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people,…

— Frank Iero

“I've always been a pantser when I write. Planning detail with what happens at every turn isn't me. I'm not a plotter.…

— Jul Winters

Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;…

— E. B. White

“I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,…

— David Sedaris

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is…

— Anne Lamott

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

— Saul Bellow

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

— Diana Gabaldon

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

— Jonah Goldberg

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

— Mitch Albom

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

— Ryan Murphy

My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling.

— Eugene Lee Yang

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre”

— Shannon MacLeod

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

— Emma Thompson

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm absolutely open to scripts written by someone else.

— Rajkumar Hirani

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

— Stan Lee

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

— Juliana Hatfield