Writing Quotes · Page 137

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

— Margaret Mitchell

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

— Irene Cara

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

— John le Carre

“Writing to make people smile :)”

— Dimas Abi

“Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]”

— Le Figaro

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

— J. K. Rowling

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

— Natasha Leggero

“Writing is the emotional morphine.”

— Mariam Maarouf

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

— Ruskin Bond

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

— Thomas Merton

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

— Sean Durkin

I ask God to bless me and I keep writing this beautiful story in football.

— Hulk

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

— Gustave Flaubert

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

— Michael Pollan

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

— Ray Bradbury

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording…

— Mpho Koaho

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get…

— Dean Young

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

— Nolan Sotillo

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But…

— Julianna Baggott

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.…

— Neil Gaiman

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order…

— Alan Zweibel

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as…

— William Mapother

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors,…

— Matthew Henry

That's kind of my job in the writer's room. I'm always the guy going, like, 'People wouldn't say that there. They wouldn't…

— Bill Burr

I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go.…

— John Updike

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It…

— Larry Clark

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it…

— Andy Wilkinson

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll…

— Rod Serling

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

— Anonymous

The only reason to write is from love.

— Stephen Sondheim

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

— Elizabeth Bowen

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

— Dodie Smith

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

— Nora Roberts

Give yourself time to get better.

— Sue Grafton

I write and walk and swim and drink.

— John le Carre