Writing Quotes · Page 75

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

I come from a family of storytellers.

— Charlie McDowell

“If in doubt, write it out!”

— Gary M. Nelson

Too many people write books as a calling card.

— Simon Sinek

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

— Aamir Khan

You have to stop living in order to write.

— Martha Gellhorn

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

— Noma Dumezweni

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

— Dean Wesley Smith

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

— Colm Toibin

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

— Tim Hughes

I've got a habit of writing about everything I go through.

— Akon

“Often when legends are written, the rowdy and rebellious get better press.”

— Kate Hopkins

There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

— Allison Mackie

I want to write my daughter something about how much I love her and what I would want to say to her…

— Ali Wong

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid…

— John Updike

The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like…

— Brad Sherwood

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to…

— Marie Corelli

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act…

— Pearl Cleage

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

— Anthony Kiedis

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve…

— Donald Margulies

I'm literally am home making my own music unless I'm asked to be in somebody's house writing music for them.

— PartyNextDoor

“People who are seeking to get famous need to ask themselves one question. Do I have depth of character? It doesn't matter…

— Robert Black

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It…

— Lynn Coady

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When…

— Wayne Dyer

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in…

— Oscar Wilde

“Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something…

— Heinz Pagels

I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know…

— Brian Evenson

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

— Curtis Jackson

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

— Lena Andersson

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“The best liars write the best fiction.”

— Robert M. Roberts

The more we write the less we die.

— Brian Kessler

“Write till you run out of words...”

— A.S. Hashmi

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

— Christopher Reeve

Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

— Sanford Biggers