Writing Quotes · Page 588

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

— Jenny Holzer

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

— Lily Allen

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

— Joanne Harris

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

— Alice Childress

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

— Elmore Leonard

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

— Aristide Briand

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily…

— Mike O'Malley

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,…

— Alice Walker

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would…

— William S. Wilson

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for…

— Giles Foden

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about…

— William Safire

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors,…

— Howard Gordon

“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World…

— Mohamed Addakhakhny

Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared…

— Susan Wittig Albert

I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a…

— Jesus Franco

“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you…

— Anonymous

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and…

— Michael Azerrad

Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what…

— Freeman Dyson

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

— Ezra Pound

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”

— John Katzenbach

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

— Amy Joy

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

— Jonathan Franzen

I could use a writer to balance my flows. But I never share my thoughts, This is all a nigga knows.

— Drake

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

— Harper Lee

It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

— Steve Coogan

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

— Shawn Crahan