Writing Quotes · Page 143

“I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.”

— Neil Gaiman

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.

— J. M. Coetzee

Write only of what is important and eternal.

— Anton Chekhov

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

— Stephen Karam

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

— Franz Kafka

“Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki”

— Julia Suzuki

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“How many things can I do without?”

— Socrates

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

— William Allingham

I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for,

— Jennifer Lawrence

“See what is invisible and you will see what to write”

— Ronald Everett Capps

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg

“do not write what comes to mind. write for the minds to come.”

— ryan england

“Write bravely but for goodness sakes, use chapters.”

— Courtney Worth Young

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

— Carolyn Hart

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

— May Sarton

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury…

— J. C. Chandor

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to…

— Tyler Childers

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write…

— Ravi Subramanian

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the…

— Steve Gilliard

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and…

— Dilys Laing

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to…

— Roger Ascham

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to…

— Cameron Crowe

I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a…

— Marci Shimoff

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to…

— Amy Hempel

“The important papers the Founders left us were the most significant writings in recorded history after the Holy Books, a magic trek…

— George Sorbane

We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there…

— Theresa Wayman

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration…

— John Dufresne

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could…

— Emma Donoghue

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if…

— Teju Cole

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,…

— Florence King

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

— Anonymous

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

— Joy Williams

“Some people think about writing, I write.”

— Starr Gardinier Reina

I love all the characters I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

You are the writer of your chapter of your life

— Magdalyn

“Never a day without a line.”

— Anonymous