Writing Quotes · Page 85

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko

“I wear the writer pants in the family.”

— Buffy Andrews

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

— Ray Bradbury

Use the smallest word that does the job.

— E. B. White

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

— Anonymous

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

— DJ Khaled

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

— Calum Scott

“This is the best time to be an author.”

— Geraldine Solon

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

“A shovel is the greatest motivational teacher I know.”

— Jason E. Hodges

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

— Robert Kirkman

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.

— Gulzar

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people…

— Ellie Goulding

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

— Donal Henahan

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

— Simon Heffer

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

I'm growing as a woman and I'm able to write about things that I wanted to write about when I was younger.

— Sabrina Claudio

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

I've always been of that mindset - when you're writing tunes with people, there's a traditional way of chopping things up, and…

— Derek Trucks

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a…

— Richard Matheson

“Science to write the corporate earnings previews that appear on the website. These stories are all generated by algorithms without human involvement.…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

The problem with being a writer/director: unless you're really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make…

— Cary Fukunaga

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…

— Patricia Briggs

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know…

— Isabel Allende

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this…

— Alex Turner

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I do always write from a personal place.

— Natalie Prass

“Good" now is better than "Best" never.”

— Phillip Gary Smith

To choose to write is to reject silence.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Writing is like a breath of fresh air.”

— Chantal Bellehumeur

I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

— Sara Sheridan

I always write tons of different styles.

— Jeremy Camp

I am one thing, my writings are another.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

— Diane Mott Davidson