Writing Quotes · Page 6

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward

“I want be a writer”

— Anne Frank

Writing is hard work.

— William Zinsser

Writing's so hard.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm just a storyteller.

— Norman Jewison

I am not a writer.

— Anonymous

“Write to your fear.”

— Dorothy Allison

Writing. Love is writing.

— Hilda Doolittle

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

— Oscar Hijuelos

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

— James Taylor

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

— Nora Ephron

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Truth is always duller than fiction.

— Piers Paul Read

Write what you’re scared about.

— Jason Katims

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

“i am writing my way back to you.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

— Michael Lewis

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

— Ari Aster

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

— Bill Ward

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

— Haruki Murakami

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

— Andrea Hirata

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

— William Monahan

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

— Tom Lehrer

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good…

— Craig Finn

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there…

— Elizabeth Berg

A lot of times, I know there's something bothering me but I don't know what it is. Then I start writing and…

— Jon Rahm

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way,…

— Michael Ian Black

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and…

— Karl Hyde

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the…

— Colson Whitehead

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a…

— Kim Carnes

“What are you thinking? She smiled. I think you can figure it out. You can read the writing on the wall. And…

— Kami Garcia

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could…

— George Saunders

“I created the Katie Fforde Bursary because I was a "nearly there" writer for a long time. I found it a bit…

— Katie Fforde

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around…

— Bernie Mac

Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of…

— Patricia Hampl

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've…

— Al Barr

A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient…

— Italo Calvino