Writing Quotes · Page 83

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

— Ellen Ullman

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

— Beth Lisick

“writing is a sustained act of empathy.”

— Andre Dubois

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”

— A.D. Posey

I never get tired of writing about love.

— Finneas

All writing is a process of elimination.

— Martha Albrand

Writing is something I can do by myself.

— Peter Coyote

“Writing opens the door to imagination.”

— Joe Evener

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

— Igor Stravinsky

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

“Poems are scars translated to written or spoken form.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

“Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.”

— Shannon Celebi

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

— Mario Puzo

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

— Scott Berkun

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

— Biz Stone

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

— Anne Waldman

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.”

— Dermott Hayes

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went…

— Granger Smith

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is…

— Brandon Boyd

“I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I…

— Roxane Gay

“Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

— Alice Walker

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I…

— Brie Larson

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and…

— Allan Gurganus

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

— Philip Pullman

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

“Write to be understood not to impress.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

I write music with an exclamation point!

— Richard Wagner

“write them on the tablet of your heart”

— Andrew M. Davis

“A word a day keeps the psychosis away!”

— Carol Robi

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield