Writing Quotes · Page 573

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.

— Bob Goff

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.”

— Fred Leebron

“To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.”

— Heather McGowan

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I do not believe in writing down to children but rather up to their intelligence.”

— D.L. Alexander

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

— Amy Tan

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to…

— John Patrick Shanley

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write…

— Homer Hickam

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

— James Herriot

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in…

— Keith Donohue

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything…

— Clint Eastwood

“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm…

— Warren Ellis

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has…

— Akiva Goldsman

I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it's the same with a house. They say…

— Adriana Trigiani

I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route…

— Duncan Jones

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting…

— Jane Smiley

The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of…

— Abigail Scott Duniway

The spotlight was on me. I pretended it wasn't, but it was, and for every wrong reason. It was all about money,…

— Shane Black

“It’s true that life seems so more much exciting when you write it down as fantasy. But then again, there are some…

— Ashley Townsend

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier…

— Kate DiCamillo

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”

— Calvin Niles

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

— A. N. Wilson

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

— Mark Millar

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being…

— Kevin Hart

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

— Sara Gruen

“It has ever been my delight to learn or to teach or to write.”

— Bede the Venerable

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

— Hilda Doolittle

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

— Suzanne Collins

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

— Jeffery Deaver

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

— Wayne Dyer

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a…

— Hilary Mantel

“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.”

— Julius Lester

“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.”

— robert m drake

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

— Billy Eichner

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

— Hillary Clinton

“Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story”

— Dave McDonald