Writing Quotes · Page 53

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

— Paulo Coelho

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

Write the story that only you can write.

— Francisco Arcellana

I write for myself. It's therapy.

— Dawn Richard

I'm not really a mass market writer.

— Alan Furst

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

— William Goldman

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

— Antonio Banderas

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Always write for yourself, writing for others will never work out and will only wear you down faster.”

— Hell Richards

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

— Humphrey Carpenter

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

— Casey Wilson

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

— Heather Sellers

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

— Susan Sontag

“The unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable." --Mandy Kellogg Rye, Writer”

— Simone Biles

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I…

— Karen Walton

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.”

— Charles Bukowski

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be…

— Tracy Chevalier

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence…

— Sherman Alexie

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a…

— Thom Gunn

“I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make…

— Alan W. Harris

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show…

— Alex Turner

I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more,…

— Ottmar Liebert

She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more…

— Frank Liddell

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young…

— Liane Balaban

“--All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance? --Yes. No. Y-Yes...Naynayno. Whynoyes. Yes, Promethea is a…

— Hélène Cixous

“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over…

— Stephen King

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth…

— T.C. Boyle

The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would…

— David Grann

I don't like to write the same song twice.

— Mark Foster

I always write the script by myself.

— Bong Joon-ho

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

— Joseph Hergesheimer

“Pulitzer is a word but accomplishment is an aura.”

— Chila Woychik

Writing is a solitary occupation.

— Bernard Cornwell

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

— Bret Michaels

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

— Storm Jameson