Writing Quotes · Page 80

I've always considered myself a writer.

— Patti Smith

“Writers are born, not created.”

— Tim Campbell

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

— Elliott Smith

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

— William Faulkner

“Some people write letters, in the library.”

— Margaret Atwood

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac

First episodes are difficult things to write.

— Michael Hirst

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

— Rich Mullins

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

— Jill Scott

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

— Paul Feig

“But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.”

— Isabel Huggan

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

— Jack Kerouac

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work…

— Harry Enten

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published,…

— Kate Cary

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I'm like, 'O.K., that was my therapy - it's out of my…

— Julia Michaels

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting…

— Anne Enright

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school,…

— Anita Desai

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,…

— Maryanne Wolf

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find…

— Ba Jin

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I…

— Timothy B. Schmit

“A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has…

— George Eliot

I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really…

— Margaret Atwood

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind…

— Julie Klausner

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's…

— Tom Stoppard

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and…

— John Updike

“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my…

— Dave Barry

That's not writing, that's typing

— Truman Capote

I wanted to write for Broadway.

— Cynthia Weil

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller”

— john j geddes

I think I have a right to write about John.

— May Pang

“I am a brother to writers everywhere.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick