Writing Quotes · Page 542

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

— Julie Delpy

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

— William Shakespeare

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

— Tom Lehrer

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

— Sean O'Casey

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

— May Sarton

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

— Andrea Hirata

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

— William Monahan

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to…

— K. D. Lang

If you're writing a show about modern media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his family are an incredibly important model and some of…

— Jesse Armstrong

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted…

— David Friedman

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

— Saul Bellow

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where…

— Antonin Artaud

All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and…

— Cailee Spaeny

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you…

— Lynn Abbey

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose…

— Paul Bailey

One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate…

— Steven Brust

Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results…

— Dan Jenkins

But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in…

— Kate Braverman

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And…

— Ray Bradbury

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find…

— Junot Diaz

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of…

— Kate DiCamillo

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

— Michael Lewis

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

— Ari Aster

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

— Haruki Murakami

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

— Bill Ward

“Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense”

— Jennifer Larmar

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

— Ewan McGregor

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

— Andre Previn

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

— Mary Norris

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Learn to live. Live to write. Write to love. Love to learn.”

— Bonafide Rojas

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

— Sal Vulcano

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.

— Dave Portnoy