Writing Quotes · Page 512

“Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”

— Phillip Roth

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

— Bryan Konietzko

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

— Aphra Behn

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

— robert m drake

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

— Chinua Achebe

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

— Paul Beatty

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

— Nikki Giovanni

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”

— J.G. Ballard

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on…

— James Burrows

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then…

— Lauren Mayberry

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single…

— Philip K. Dick

I always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in…

— Nag Ashwin

“Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.”

— Stephan Pastis

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes…

— Stan Lee

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth…

— Gore Vidal

I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem…

— Iain Dowie

I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain…

— Nick Valensi

“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you…

— W.P. Kinsella

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just…

— Douglas A. Martin

The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told…

— Margaret Atwood

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle…

— James Gunn

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to…

— Anonymous

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel…

— Henry Rollins

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps.”

— Claire B. May Gordon S. May

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

— Jonathan Waterman

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

— James Toback

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live…

— Rakim

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

— Tennessee Williams

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

— Jonathan Lynn

“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...”

— Richard Rodriguez

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

— Fantastic Negrito

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale