Writing Quotes · Page 1,568

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms…

— Raymond Chandler

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz…

— Haruki Murakami

That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation…

— Rowan Blanchard

I don't know why I end up writing about such heavy topics.

— Declan McKenna

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world…

— Michael Longley

“Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar…

— Avijeet Das

“The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed…

— Chris Baty

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…

— Nicole Krauss

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography.…

— Mary Oliver

“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice”

— Joan Didion

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

— Walker Evans

“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”

— robert m drake

“in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in…

— Kevin Spacey

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,…

— Inga Muscio

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or…

— Ellen Gilchrist

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

— Anonymous

“Every time I sit down to write, I have a great fear that anything I write will reveal me as the monster…

— Dorothy Allison

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with…

— Alton Brown

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would…

— Emily Post

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to…

— Roman Payne

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,…

— Paul Auster

The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down…

— Christina Milian

Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't…

— Dan Bern

I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers.…

— Sherman Alexie

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended…

— Michael Bond

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced,…

— Miriam Toews

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

— P. D. James

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to…

— Brett Gelman

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.…

— Peter O'Toole

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write…

— David Baldacci

“I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than…

— Anaïs Nin

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

— Katie Melua

When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're…

— Jack Antonoff