Writing Quotes · Page 133

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

— Lewis Black

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

— Horace Walpole

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

— Tony Harrison

Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger..

— Natalie Goldberg

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

— Erskine Caldwell

“I live to write but, I read to live.”

— Gail Gentry

I don't write books inadvertently.

— A. N. Wilson

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.

— Anonymous

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

— Marlon James

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

— Oriana Fallaci

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

— Madonna Ciccone

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

— Lewis Carroll

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

“The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really…

— James Frey

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

— Anonymous

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have…

— Robert Morgan

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

— Ani DiFranco

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have…

— Steven Knight

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that…

— Joan Larkin

“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,…

— Michael Jackson

Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as…

— Evelyn Waugh

“We’re not talking about your life. We’re talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it’s time you learned there’s a…

— Jennifer Echols

Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through…

— James Scott Bell

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to…

— Freddie Hubbard

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often…

— Lisa Unger

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing…

— Edgar Allan Poe

What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You can't write a book in Heaven”

— Don Newman

Bad spellers of the world untie!

— Adam Savage

You must write for the waste basket.

— Johnny Mercer

“Writing is the handmaiden of leadership.”

— William Zinsser

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

— Martin Gore

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

— Anonymous