Writing Quotes · Page 154

“The future's written in water.”

— Carolyn MacCullough

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

— Jon Lovett

I never wanted to be a writer.

— Herta Muller

Read, read read. Read everything.

— William Faulkner

Writing has to support itself.

— V. S. Naipaul

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

— Michael Kanin

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

— Jared Kushner

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

— A. S. Byatt

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

— Ann Voskamp

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

— Diablo Cody

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

— Gore Vidal

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

— Maria Semple

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

— Frederick Busch

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And…

— James Taylor

“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto…

— CK Webb

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a…

— Clay Shirky

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

— Bernard Malamud

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's…

— Aldous Huxley

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But…

— Sam Hamill

“What leads me to accredit the truth of what great Savonati has conveyed to us is the way in which he conscientiously…

— Balzac

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own…

— Anne Lamott

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft,…

— Norbert Leo Butz

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand…

— Frosty Wooldridge

I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing…

— Zadie Smith

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

— Henry Rollins

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

My best writing has always been in journals.

— Thomas Merton

Now the writing's on a wall

— Prodigy

“May it be written. May it be done.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“No woman has ever written enough.”

— bell hooks