Writing Quotes · Page 568

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

— Jaron Lanier

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

— Lori Foster

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

— Ralph Fletcher

Nobody elected me, nobody voted for me. They don't want me writing policy, and I don't intend to.

— Karen Pence

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

— Andrew Bird

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

— John Carpenter

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task…

— Garth Ennis

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

— Etgar Keret

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and…

— Rich Mullins

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in…

— Carolyn Forche

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it…

— Beryl Pfizer

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it…

— Nat Hentoff

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

— Anonymous

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to…

— Julia Alvarez

“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re…

— Kermit E. Heartsong

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it…

— Athol Fugard

“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer…

— Eugene Wigner

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied…

— Aaron Hill

I think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want…

— Lynne Tillman

When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.…

— Remi Aubuchon

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them…

— Charles de Lint

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

— Sky Ferreira

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

— Bobby McFerrin

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

It's brilliant there are so many writer-performers around.

— Daisy May Cooper

“There are more writers who read than readers who write.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

— Frank Zappa

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

— Eden Robinson

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

— Bob Schieffer

“The one, who write is more matured than the one, who read.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self