Writing Quotes · Page 56

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You…

— Tupac Shakur

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of…

— Denise Duhamel

I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

— Kate McKinnon

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…

— Joseph Epstein

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and…

— Clive Barker

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother…

— Patricia Lockwood

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of…

— Ralph Fletcher

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for…

— Max Beerbohm

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on…

— Rakim

“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets…

— S.E. Smith

“Her prose was a hammer; Darwin’s was a psalm.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“As the economic writer Ben Casselman pointed out in 2016, most college applicants “never have to write a college entrance essay, pad…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a…

— Paul Auster

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it…

— John Sayles

Write a page a day. It will add up.

— Herman Wouk

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the…

— William Faulkner

I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He…

— Jay Mohr

I like to play this game where I ask people to count gay pop writers and producers they know. Everyone's always like,…

— Justin Tranter

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles:…

— Holly Hunter

I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

— Deepti Naval

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

— Jack Woodford

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

— Janet Evanovich

I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny…

— Jack Bruce

Getting even is one reason for writing.

— William H. Gass

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

— Winston Churchill

“I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore…

— John Steinbeck

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

— James Caan

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't…

— El-P

Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get…

— Sadie Jones