Writing Quotes · Page 551

“We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.”

— Ann Patchett

“Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

— George Orwell

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

— Jincy Willett

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

— Barack Obama

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and…

— Richie Sambora

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

— Sophy Burnham

“come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a…

— Gord Downie

“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.”

— Lisa Henry

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

— Stellan Skarsgard

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with…

— Rhianna Pratchett

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire…

— Arthur Plotnik

“I have spent these several days past, in reading and writing, with the most pleasing tranquility imaginable. You will ask, "How that…

— Pliny the Younger

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and…

— Anonymous

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak…

— Bob Dylan

They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy…

— Julie Davis

“I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke…

— Maya Angelou

There are personal topics on the record that have nothing to do with creativity but were maybe amplified by the demands of…

— Robin Pecknold

“Build it and they shall come, write it and they shall read .(me), but not the first bit though.”

— Karl Coates

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

— Dov Davidoff

“Even the most productive writers are expert dwadlers.”

— Anonymous

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

— Fran Lebowitz

“...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...”

— John Geddes

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

— Alexander Chee

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

— Donald Hall

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

— Grant Achatz

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

— Shereen El Feki

“In my head, when the gales are riding wild, I steer towards catastrophe then write about it.”

— Robin Robertson

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

— Anonymous

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec