Writing Quotes · Page 585

“I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.”

— Mary O'Hara

“What I write about is not war but the courage of man.”

— Cornelius Ryan

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

— Amit Bhatia

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

— T. J. Miller

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as…

— Tobin Bell

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out…

— Isaac Brock

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

— Mike Romano

I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /…

— Needa Muy

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever…

— Nick Cave

“The most common kind of zine is the personal zine, created by individuals reflecting on their everyday lives-confessional, sometimes mundane, containing even…

— Mark Todd

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you…

— Lynn Johnston

Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should…

— Ruskin Bond

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end…

— Sloane Crosley

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he…

— Anonymous

Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No,…

— Olivia Williams

“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun…

— Norman Mailer

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the…

— Claire Messud

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I…

— Jenny Han

As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of…

— Julianne Malveaux

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

— Tama Janowitz

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

— Leonard Sweet

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

— Charles Dickens

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

I'm writing down your favorite things to show you that I've read your letters again.

— A Rocket To The Moon

“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”

— John Geddes

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

— Alvaro Morata

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

In real life...you can't write 2 sentences on antyhing...but on Twitter you're a philosopher...

— Jerett Parker

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

— Sara Bareilles

I wanted to write music that would be around for a long time.

— John Waite

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

— Dan Payne

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

— Kimora Lee Simmons