Writing Quotes · Page 150

I write a thousand words a day.

— Lisa See

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose.”

— David Mitchell

Writing is more important than being a writer.

— Jesse Andrews

Writing is a job: you must show up.

— Justin Cronin

“3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.”

— Vinita Kinra

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

— Robert Ben Garant

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

— James Ellroy

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

— Jill Barnett

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

— Virginia Woolf

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

— Adam Duritz

I make sure to write every day, even if it's a little bit.

— Dolph Ziggler

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

“you have write that not some imagine that cause on write that you can make anyone feel it...”

— Tary

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of…

— Ellen Hopkins

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

— K. D. Lang

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I…

— Rufus Wainwright

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected…

— Don DeLillo

I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.

— Morten Harket

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's…

— Akiva Goldsman

Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is…

— Joseph Brodsky

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.…

— John Steinbeck

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating…

— A. S. Byatt

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the…

— Ray Dalio

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My…

— Emily Haines

You do bits and you fake anger and you write a bit and you have passion for it. Then you do it…

— Doug Stanhope

“Like other kinds of intelligence, the storyteller's is partly natural, partly trained. It is composed of several qualities, most of which, in…

— John Gardner

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length…

— Erik Larson

I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing…

— Marcus Brigstocke

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

— Bobby Knight

I don't really write on paper no more.

— Moneybagg Yo

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

— Mark Twain

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

— Dave Brubeck

“...when I write, I seek to see.”

— Kevin Lucia

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

— Jayne Meadows

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

— Liz Phair

Love is easy, and I love writing.

— Ray Bradbury