Writing Quotes · Page 54

“Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Because. Everything worth anything takes time.”

— Christy Hall

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

— Rod Serling

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

— Erica Jong

“Reading is fun: Writing is funner!”

— Wayne Croning

“If writing hurts you're doing it right.”

— Christina Strigas

It isn't writing at all - it's typing

— Truman Capote

History is written by winners.

— Alex Haley

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“WRITING POETRY IS an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop”

— Anonymous

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

— Tana French

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.

— Shalom Auslander

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

— Matt Hammitt

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs.…

— Imogen Heap

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all…

— Fred Reed

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a…

— Rita Dove

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be…

— Neil Diamond

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front…

— Jason Schwartzman

I like to write at my cabin up north in Michigan, and I find there are a million other things to do…

— Uncle Kracker

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write…

— Gore Vidal

Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically…

— Owen Pallett

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and…

— Jennifer Konner

I love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first,…

— NAO

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why…

— Steven Wright

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general. I…

— Young Thug

For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the…

— Lisa Joy

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought…

— Sophie Hannah

I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the…

— Solange Knowles

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

— Stephen Karam

I write - and then I write some more.

— Frank Delaney

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

— Joseph Stalin

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

— Jason Isbell

Nothing is new except arrangement.

— Will Durant

“Nothing is written until you write it!”

— Frank Ainslie

I only want to write books and movies about women.

— Nick Hornby

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

— Grace VanderWaal