Writing Quotes · Page 116

I write poems to figure things out

— Sarah Kay

“Stop messing about and get back to writing.”

— Craig Allan Teich

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

— Sarah Lancashire

“i want to bleed ink and shit prose.”

— Jonathan Culver

You know what, I just write what I feel.

— Tommy Lee

My medium is prose, not the novel.

— David Shields

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

— Andy Biersack

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

— Nick Laird

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.”

— Gerard de Marigny

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

— Jeanette Winterson

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

— Jason Reitman

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

— Martin McDonagh

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

— Jeff Garlin

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody…

— Judd Apatow

“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest…

— Casey Carter

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

— Peter Morgan

Did you know when you write your feelings on to the paper, it reflects on how you feel inside with soul and…

— BigHeartedPerson

“Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing.…

— Jonathan Gunson

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”

— Carrie Fisher

“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven…

— Douglas Wilson

“I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very…

— Sanhita Baruah

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was…

— Carlos Fuentes

I think as he gets older, Quentin [Tarantino] is growing more and more into his directorial side, but the writer in him…

— Bun B

I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out…

— Mike White

I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world…

— Adam Ross

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more…

— Eric Johnston

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing…

— Roger Ebert

“As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

— Taryn Manning

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

— Keith Allen

My way towards God has been to write music.

— John Tavener