Writing Quotes · Page 97

“Don't just read to read. Read to understand.”

— Jill Telford

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

— Jess C Scott

“It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.”

— Jo Walton

The writing is what's most important to me.

— Billy Lawrence

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

It takes me ages to write stuff.

— Chris Lilley

Write as if you were dying.

— Annie Dillard

Everything I write is about me.

— Mika

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

— Mary Wesley

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

— Layne Staley

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

— Manuel Puig

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

— Claire Danes

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

— JPEGMAFIA

I am really grateful to Hindustan Times as it gave me the first platform to my writing passion.

— Divya Dutta

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may…

— James Otis

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the…

— James Nicoll

Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege.…

— Abi Morgan

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Hats off to Tavia Gilbert who made Bones alive for me. What a great writer and narrator team. You make listening fun!”…

— Tavia Gilbert

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank…

— Morgan Freeman

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is…

— Manuel Puig

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,…

— Miranda July

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very…

— Kate Atkinson

“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll…

— Erica Jong

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups,…

— Drew Houston

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive…

— Pico Iyer

I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear…

— Matthew Brannon

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage…

— Samuel Johnson

In a serious relationship, I will definitely write music about a guy. I'm totally into mix tapes and I'm all about small…

— Aly Michalka

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's…

— Calvin Trillin

“I make things up and write them down.”

— Neil Gaiman

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

It's so difficult writing about living people.

— James D. Watson

“I squint to decipher his scratchy boy writing.”

— Michelle Krys

I write a diary every day.

— Bojan Krkic

“Write the story. Don't write sentences.”

— James Patterson

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

— Sean Lock

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx