Writing Quotes · Page 580

“What's the difference between and actor and a writer? When a writer yells "LOOK AT ME!", nobody does.”

— Cain S. Latrani

“If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.”

— K.M. Logan

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

— Ben Mezrich

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

“you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school ..”

— The 1975

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song…

— Carl Sandburg

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe…

— Jim Butcher

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing…

— Charles Van Doren

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from…

— Garrison Keillor

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

— John Green

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while…

— Simone Elkeles

The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for…

— Lynne Truss

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think…

— Judy Woodruff

“Liberty On my notebooks from school On my desk and the trees On the sand, on the snow I write your name…

— Paul Éluard

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to…

— Cyril Connolly

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck…

— David Ives

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one…

— Junot Diaz

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

— Naomi Novik

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

— Michael Koryta

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.

— William Allingham

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

— Paul Theroux

“If what I write is perfect, I'd rob myself the thrill of improvement.”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

— Mitch Lucker

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

— Roald Dahl

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

— Siri Hustvedt

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

— Chris Cleave

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

— Virginia Woolf

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

— David Bezmozgis

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid