Writing Quotes · Page 63

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

What can be said, should never be written

— Adolf Hitler

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

I would love to write and direct.

— Sydney Sweeney

When you write a song, a song has longevity

— Smokey Robinson

“Nothing listens as well as a blank page.”

— Shaun Hick

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

I write constantly about everything.

— Tom Sturridge

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

— Daniel Tosh

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

— Bill Walsh

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I write about things that are really happening, serious things.

— Wilson Pickett

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

— Colman Domingo

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

— George Orwell

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something -…

— Mark Kurlansky

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

— Bob Seger

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch…

— Julie Walters

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you…

— Jason Mraz

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me…

— robert m drake

I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show…

— David Sedaris

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends…

— Vic Fuentes

“I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names in the…

— Kamand Kojouri

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,…

— Hilma Wolitzer

“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in…

— Haruki Murakami

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more…

— Jake Kasdan

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down…

— Sarah Silverman

In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification…

— Allison Joseph

I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.

— Josh Widdicombe

I've always had a maturity within my writing.

— Sabrina Claudio

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

— Arundhati Roy

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

I mean, I don't write for kids.

— Al Yankovic

We are always writing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

— Aimee Bender

There is no story unless you've written it.

— Hunter S. Thompson