Writing Quotes · Page 538

“If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!”

— Jen Selinsky

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

— Aimee Bender

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anais Nin

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

— Ezra Pound

“Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back”

— Kya Aliana

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

— Nick Lachey

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches…

— Pranav Mistry

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill",…

— Walter Hill

“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no…

— Dani Shapiro

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about…

— Edward Hirsch

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery…

— Jenny Offill

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing…

— Joe Posnanski

I'm a storyteller in a joke format. I tell stories, I try to have a lot of jokes constantly through that story.…

— Nate Bargatze

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the…

— Maria Semple

Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to…

— Michael K. Williams

“...when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique…

— Scott Lynch

“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know…

— Nick Morgan

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks…

— Isabel Allende

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to…

— Emily Perkins

“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading…

— Anne Lamott

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

— Virginia Woolf

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

— Sam Shepard

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

— Daniel Keys Moran

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd

“She begins to write to Pierre, a sort of laboratory notebook of grief.”

— Lydia Davis

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

— Ethel Wilson

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

“Writing isn't a hobby, it's a lifestyle and a movement.”

— Lilith. A

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

— Brendan Kennelly

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

— Melanie Benjamin

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!”

— Christina Westover

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton