Writing Quotes · Page 583

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

— Kendrick Lamar

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

— Tara Westover

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

— Gore Vidal

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

— Andy Rooney

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

— Frank Sinatra

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the…

— Julie Burchill

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a…

— A. J. Jacobs

“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.”

— H.E. Fairbanks

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

— James Purdy

If I was written off and was not offered any work, I wouldn't care because I have lots of other things to…

— Ayesha Takia

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

— Joyce Carol Oates

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something…

— James Scott Bell

“There is probably something weird about you, about what you want to do, about how you want to do it. You’re probably…

— Kyle Minor

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns…

— John Ciardi

There's no unifying brand about me other than I'm a writer who shares my thoughts. Sometimes my thoughts are designed to help…

— Mike Cernovich

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to…

— Josephine Tey

“Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WWI: “The revolution of…

— Carl Schmitt

In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to…

— Allegra Goodman

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve…

— Winston Churchill

I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I…

— Eran Creevy

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

— Sheila Heti

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

— Samuel Daniel

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

— Robert M. Pirsig

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

— J. B. Priestley

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Just don't be afraid to be yourself and write whatever comes out.

— Skrillex

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

— Jerry Lewis

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks