Writing Quotes · Page 566

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

— Ayn Rand

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

— Kiran Desai

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

— William Goldman

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

— Anonymous

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

— Natalie Dormer

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given…

— Quentin Tarantino

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although…

— Alex Parks

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work…

— Will Haygood

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world…

— Amitava Kumar

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot…

— Kathy Griffin

Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.

— Howard Jacobson

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was…

— Charles R. Morris

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction…

— James John Courtenay

“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several…

— Gao Xingjian

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations.…

— Kathy Acker

“The writer becomes a superhero every time he or she sits down to write. We must excel ourselves with each new writing…

— Rob Parnell

Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched…

— R. S. Thomas

“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each…

— John Steinbeck

Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I…

— Patti Stanger

“Many writers have reported being able to forestall the petty annoyances of life by maintaining the shared illusion that they are working…

— Kenneth B. Lifshitz

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

— Stephen King

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

— Max Lucado

I want to write music that actually matters and to be able to make a difference through song.

— Jen Ledger

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

— John Grisham

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

— Tony Grisoni

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

— Brent Runyon

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

— Ron Chernow

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

— Andrew McAleer

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

— Jack Woodford

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I try not to go too crazy with what people write on social media, it's about trying to do my best.

— Miguel Almiron

“Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.”

— Sofia Kennedy

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

— Ed Seykota

“My cat’s favorite chew toy is a pen. I’d wager that he is a better writer than me.”

— Jarod Kintz