Writing Quotes · Page 84

One writes not by will but by surrender.

— Erica Jong

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

— Ruskin Bond

I love writing about people on the road.

— Cynthia Kadohata

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

— Max Lucado

“Nothing is written until you write it!”

— Frank Ainslie

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

— Dick Cavett

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

— Duff McKagan

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

— Eddie Van Halen

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

— Ian Gillan

“WRITING POETRY IS an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop”

— Anonymous

“I am proof positive that wolves write doggie-style...”

— Arnold Wolf

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

— Lisa Lopes

“Life is much worse than anything I could write about.”

— M.C. O'Neill

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

— Michelle Tea

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

— Jeffery Deaver

I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book…

— Motorhead

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

— LIZ

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

— Rachel Caine

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

— Amy Bloom

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my…

— Cass Elliot

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or…

— John Hodgman

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come…

— Taiye Selasi

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it…

— Richard Russo

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice…

— Constance Hale

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but…

— Mindy Kaling

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very…

— Anais Nin

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But…

— Nicole Krauss

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

I write all of my material. It's all me.

— Ron White

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

— Jodi Picoult

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

— Juan Rulfo

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess

Facebook is the novel we are all writing

— Katie Roiphe

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard