Writing Quotes · Page 82

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

— Joss Whedon

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

— Tom Waits

When you're rich you don't write checks.

— Randy Moss

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

— Louise Erdrich

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

— Natalie Goldberg

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

— Walt Kelly

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

“Even the most productive writers are expert dwadlers.”

— Anonymous

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

— Sarah Cooper

I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

— Ehud Barak

“I don’t want to write lines or be sent to the corner.”

— Sara Taylor Woods

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

— Brett Young

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

— N. K. Jemisin

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

— Paracelsus

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

— Alphonse Karr

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has…

— Alice Mattison

I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

— Steve Martin

Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or…

— Ann Patchett

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so…

— Howard Mumford Jones

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into…

— Jesse Johnson

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting…

— Luke Hemmings

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

— Victor Hugo

Cheers pal. I do apprcieate the writing.

— Elly

I like to write books and cause trouble.

— Heather Brooke

“Read a lot. Write a lot. Delete a lot.”

— Hannah Richell

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

— Sam Shepard

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

— John Prine

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

— Irvine Welsh

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon