Writing Quotes · Page 57

One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation,…

— Flannery O'Connor

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say…

— Steven Pressfield

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

— Sylvia Plath

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

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

— Danielle Steel

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

— Aamir Khan

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

— Shakira

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

— Frank Harte

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

— Brett Dennen

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

— Chuck Ragan

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is.…

— Leo Burnett

When you are the avatar for the writer/director, a lot of times, I just trusted him. If he had a choice, even…

— Matt Bomer

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

— Roger Zelazny

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

— Aristotle

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to…

— Mark Cuban

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

— Adele

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and…

— Denis Leary

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

— Cynthia Weil

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own…

— William Zinsser

“Matters of the heart make your world worth occupying.”

— Benjamin Percy

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to…

— Lori Lansens

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not…

— Gulzar

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what…

— Gary Provost

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but…

— Thomas McEvilley

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very…

— Malebo Sephodi

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I…

— Joan Baez

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

— Lee Child

I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own…

— Anne Lamott

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like…

— Kirstin Maldonado

I truly appreciate this post. Keep writing.

— Cheap

I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The…

— Helen Fielding

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

— Kazuo Ishiguro