Writing Quotes · Page 93

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

— Derek Walcott

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

— Kate Braverman

I like to write at home a lot.

— Rodney Atkins

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

— Taylor Sheridan

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

I write in a rush of memory.

— Brent Runyon

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

— Mason Cooley

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

— Daniel Lissing

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart.

— Jeremy Limn

“(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.”

— Jincy Willett

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys…

— Antonia Fraser

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

— Sam Shepard

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you…

— Alice Hoffman

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to…

— Avi Kaplan

The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me…

— Molly Crabapple

“The point I'm trying to make is that by recording my progress every day, I had the data I needed to start…

— Rachel Aaron

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…

— Zadie Smith

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

— Taiye Selasi

“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t…

— Franklin Foer

I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I…

— Sharon Van Etten

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed,…

— Larry Niven

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of…

— Terry Pratchett

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.…

— Bryce Dessner

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower…

— Ray Bradbury

Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing…

— Nick Petrie

. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem…

— Michelle Tea

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

— Chinua Achebe

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

— Buck Henry

“Writing is a team sport.”

— Chris White

“All law is writ in a seed.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Im writing a song about my penis, I'm not done yet

— Anonymous

I love writing different things.

— Anthony Horowitz

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

— Daniel Pinkwater