Writing Quotes · Page 96

Write to Inspire. Write to Express. Write to Live.

— Anonymous

When in doubt, blow something up.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“Writers scribble sweet nothings in your mind...”

— Anonymous

“Read and write. Vehemently.”

— Michael X

Writing is no respecter of blueprints.

— William Zinsser

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

“Moreover, liars write less than they speak.”

— Edouard Levé

“Discovery's friend is creativity”

— Phillip Gary Smith

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anais Nin

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

— Ezra Pound

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

— Charity Parkerson

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

— Fiona Shaw

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which…

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's…

— Jason Mraz

“Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.”

— Amaya Ellman

I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to…

— Shaun King

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true.…

— Shelby Lynne

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

— Anonymous

My goal growing up was to write a book. That's why I studied English and creative writing in college, and that is…

— Lauren Ridloff

Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and…

— Elizabeth Berg

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral…

— Robert Burns

“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but…

— Anne Frank

“Life, even in Everworld, wasn't a romance novel. I guess romance writers imagine that being rescued is a big rush, a kind…

— K.A. Applegate

“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you…

— Margaret Atwood

“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any…

— Christopher Hitchens

I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a…

— Steve Albini

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on…

— Raymond Carver

The prison is the state writ small.

— Mason Cooley

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

— Andre Holland

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

— Bryce Courtenay

“I go with the flow but I write against it.”

— TL Burrell

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

— Geraint Thomas

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

— Tyra Banks

I listen to music constantly while writing.

— Orson Scott Card