Writing Quotes · Page 95

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

— Patrick Marber

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

On a good day I write, all day.

— Nick Flynn

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

— Cornelia Funke

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

“I write things that I would like to read myself.”

— T.M. Bilderback

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

— Barack Obama

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”

— Miles Tager

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

— Nick Lachey

“Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back”

— Kya Aliana

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

— Aimee Bender

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess…

— William Graham Sumner

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother…

— Isabel Colegate

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

— Isabel Allende

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am…

— Hallie Ephron

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own…

— Jack Prelutsky

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

— John Hawkes

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

— Eric McCormack

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.…

— Flannery O'Connor

“My most important goal as a romance writer is to satisfy readers by creating memorable characters, offering insights on life, and, most…

— Laura Abbot

Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company…

— Ted Kooser

Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do…

— Colin McGinn

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number…

— Abraham Verghese

Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try…

— Masha Gessen

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course…

— Marguerite Young

When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

Headline writing is an art form.

— Jennifer Lee

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

— Santigold

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

— Rex Stout

“Revenge is a dish best served published!”

— Lisa Kovanda

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

— Maria Brink