Writing Quotes · Page 584

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

— Warren Littlefield

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

— Lillian Hellman

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

— Courtney Barnett

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

— Diane Ackerman

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily…

— Nick Cave

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the…

— Anonymous

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism…

— Isabel Allende

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do…

— J. B. Priestley

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when…

— Skye Warren

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached…

— Lily Koppel

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an…

— Ellen DeGeneres

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a…

— Claudia Roth Pierpont

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,…

— Henry David Thoreau

A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So…

— George Saunders

“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would…

— Peter Ackroyd

“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing… No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his…

— Dava Sobel

“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between…

— Ally Condie

“Owen Zupp is an award-winning writer, published author and commercial pilot with nearly 17,000 hours of flight time. He has flown all…

— Owen Zupp

The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview…

— Matt Labash

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

— David Mamet

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

— Richard Wilbur

I just wanted to keep writing, playing and going out touring.

— Jack Savoretti

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

— Anne Lamott

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

— Peter Drucker

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

— Moliere

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

— Alex Haley

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming