Writing Quotes · Page 550

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

— Criss Jami

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

— Raymond Chandler

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

— Cliff Martinez

Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

— Lucinda Williams

“Don't Write What You Know; Write What You Care About -- Passionately!!”

— Carol Hightshoe

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

— Robert Stone

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn…

— James Dashner

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a…

— Cynthia Ozick

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is…

— Tim LaHaye

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You…

— Paul Auster

Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a…

— Celeste Ng

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we…

— Eric McCormack

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative…

— David S. Goyer

“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.”

— Kevin Ansbro

As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is…

— Bill Watterson

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books…

— Simon Rich

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always…

— Anthony Minghella

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I…

— Ani DiFranco

“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate…

— Bill Watterson

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure,…

— Charles Churchill

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life…

— Anne Lamott

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in…

— Herbert Read

“The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.”

— Dionne Brand

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

— Edward Abbey

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

— Sylvia Plath

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

— John Walter Bratton

“You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.”

— Peter Bowen

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

— robert m drake

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

— Markus Zusak

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

— Christopher Darden

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

— Matthew Healy

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

“I am a bestselling author”, rather than “I will write a book next year.” Second,”

— James Thompson

“What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?”

— Cathy Gohlke

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

— Stephen King

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Maya Angelou