Writing Quotes · Page 117

I've never been in a writer's room.

— Rashida Jones

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

“Writers by affliction are an idiosyncratic lot.”

— Ken Goldstein

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

— KT Tunstall

“The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins”

— Clint Catalyst

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

“I write to say what I cannot speak”

— Ben Mitchell

I've always liked new writing.

— Imelda Staunton

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

— Franz Grillparzer

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

We are all authors of our life. Unfortunately we write them in pen so we can't erase our mistakes.

— Nishan Panwar

In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.

— Emily Kinney

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

— Orson Scott Card

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

— John Green

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

— John Irving

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

“What needs to be reinforced is the idea that good writing - solid, honest, entertaining, beautiful good writing - is simultaneously the…

— Tom Bissell

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues.…

— Danzy Senna

“Only the living can read. This means that when I write, my target market is people of the future. Greetings, people of…

— Jarod Kintz

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a…

— Dar Williams

The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and…

— Megan Abbott

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

— Edward Hirsch

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then…

— Molly Ringwald

“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by…

— Orhan Pamuk

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true…

— Elbert Hubbard

Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly…

— Alice Munro

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a…

— Maya Angelou

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some…

— Iain Banks

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and…

— Joseph Joubert

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't…

— Tony Kushner

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it…

— Eric Weiner

“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,…

— Lisa Schroeder

Do I have stupid written over my forehead?

— Judge Judy

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,

— Mark Haddon

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I write from my point of view.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

— Alan Guth

“Before there were books, we read each other.”

— Lisa Cron

You have to write about what scares you.

— Michael Connelly

I think there is optimism to what I write.

— KT Tunstall