Writing Quotes · Page 8

I write for my people.

— Lena Waithe

I believe in my writing.

— Barry Manilow

I write-down to speak-up.

— Anonymous

I only write in blue ink.

— Kat Graham

I write manically.

— Robert Ben Garant

Writing is my therapy.

— Adam Silvera

“I write, what I imagine”

— Lilian Quirino

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

— Helena Maria Viramontes

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

— Havelock Ellis

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

— Edmund Campion

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

— Trent Reznor

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

— Joss Whedon

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

I don't write policy for my government.

— Jim Mattis

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

— Lloyd Alexander

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

— Clive Cussler

“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

— Epictetus

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

— Mike Tyson

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

— Henry Cho

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

— Joan Didion

My dad's best friend was a food writer and critic, so I was very lucky to eat in beautiful Michelin-starred restaurants growing…

— Dominique Crenn

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of…

— Warren Leight

“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy…

— Roger Zelazny

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

— Kenneth Williams

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious…

— Ian Brown

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going,…

— Eudora Welty

I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.

— Dane Cook

“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written…

— Ernest Hemingway

I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole…

— Gwen Stefani

I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I…

— Donald E. Westlake

I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her…

— Mike Posner

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read…

— Kate Zambreno

I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women…

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to…

— Ann Patchett

I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing…

— Erica Jong