Writing Quotes · Page 587

“Those who write the whole nights, keep a nation awake.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

— Sabrina Carpenter

“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.”

— John Irving

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

— Josip Novakovich

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”

— Jonathan Price

If I were to write a book about my life, I swear it would be the best-selling book for the longest time.…

— Monica

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

— E. B. White

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the…

— Marshall McLuhan

Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and…

— James Newton Howard

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that…

— James Gunn

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they…

— Jessica Alba

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream.…

— Paul Kane

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have…

— Don Marquis

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp…

— Steve Rushin

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are…

— Judy Greer

How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write…

— Paul Washer

I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a…

— Emily Barton

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

— Julia Quinn

“and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been”

— George Gordon Byron

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

— Jim Beaver

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

“Sleep: a time to tell yourself stories not yet written.”

— Philippe Lechermeier

“... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.”

— Katherine Mansfield

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

— Lee Ranaldo

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

— Anonymous

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

— Sylvester Stallone