Writing Quotes · Page 74

I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition…

— Mona Eltahawy

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and…

— Jacob Anderson

“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything…

— Hafiz

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

— Stephanie Connolly

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

— John Irving

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly…

— Zadie Smith

Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice.…

— Matt de la Pena

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are,…

— Brian Selznick

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too…

— Andrea Gabriel

“Why have I made up such a story, so out of keeping with an ordinary diary, and a writer’s above all? And…

— Charles Dickens

I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...…

— Harriet Miers

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

— Jack Smith

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it…

— Edmund White

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us…

— Junot Diaz

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your…

— Eeva Kilpi

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the…

— Edmond Jabes

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x…

— Will Self

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us…

— Matthew Ashford

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

— Ambrose Bierce

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

— Mitch Albom

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

— Janet Evanovich

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and…

— Mark Twain

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and…

— Don DeLillo

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

“The panther that has stalked you since you were a child is old now. No longer wild, and tired of guarding the…

— Pat Schneider

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is…

— Justin Simien

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is…

— Cynthia Ozick

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong