Writing Quotes · Page 591

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”

— Laura Goode

“People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

— Jane Austen

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

“Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but”

— J.D. Vance

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

— Endre Szemeredi

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

— Charles Bock

“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”

— Kelli Jae Baeli

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that…

— Wilkie Collins

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

— Maren Morris

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

— Don Pendleton

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing,…

— Kevin Sampsell

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was…

— Janet Evanovich

“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting…

— Michael D. Jackson

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!…

— Leigh Hunt

The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the…

— Frankie Cosmos

Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a…

— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

“Therefore, the priestly writers shrunk them and incorporated them as part of the cover (sometimes incorrectly translated as “mercy seat”) of the…

— Charles River Editors

“This is a record of woman’s entire life, written over a woman’s entire life. As such, it seems to be the first…

— Clarice Lispector

I think if you are truly convinced of why you're writing something, if it's a strong enough dream of yours to share…

— Diane Drake

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long…

— Steve Burns

Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator,…

— Adrian Pasdar

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

— Joanna Southcott

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.”

— Sara Sheridan

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”

— Haruki Murakami

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

— Alex Flinn

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

— Jay Neugeboren

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

— Joey Jordison

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

— Ivy Lee

“You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.”

— Jess Walter

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!”

— Curlie Q. Link

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.”

— Amit Kalantri