Writing Quotes · Page 110

“I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.”

— Stephen Fry

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

— Stephen King

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

— John Keats

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

— Italo Calvino

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

— Anonymous

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.”

— Susan Statham

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

— Randy Owen

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

— J. K. Rowling

“Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.”

— David Grossman

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

— Francois Mauriac

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book.…

— Michael Ondaatje

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let…

— Boyle Roche

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of…

— Jenna Bush

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

— Jon Bon Jovi

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I…

— Alison Goldfrapp

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about…

— Jeannette Walls

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single…

— Adam Johnson

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

— Tarryn Fisher

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent…

— Doug Harvey

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a…

— Rupert Murdoch

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work…

— Alison Bechdel

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a…

— Anthony Burgess

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to…

— Jeff Kinney

In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a…

— Leni Zumas

“How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape?…

— Theresa Breslin

We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and…

— Jordan Buckley

Writing makes you more human.

— John Updike

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I write short stories. I write every day.

— Isaiah Mustafa

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

— Alexei Sayle

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

— Edward Albee

“It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap.”

— Jonathan O'Brien

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

— Anonymous

“Writing is like a breath of fresh air.”

— Chantal Bellehumeur