Writing Quotes · Page 157

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”

— Amit Kalantri

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

— Patti Smith

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

— James Joyce

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

— Travis Scott

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

— Kary Mullis

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

— Katy B

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

— Andrew Bird

Nobody elected me, nobody voted for me. They don't want me writing policy, and I don't intend to.

— Karen Pence

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

— Lori Foster

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

— Ralph Fletcher

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

— Jaron Lanier

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

— Bob Schieffer

I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

— W. H. Auden

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would…

— Mary McCarthy

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When…

— Alan Alda

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

— Anonymous

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

— Jaron Lanier

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always…

— Kevin Morby

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an…

— Mindy Kaling

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.…

— Sabaa Tahir

“... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there…

— Ann Radcliffe

Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's never been a chore; it's always…

— George Ezra

I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in…

— Zoe Kazan

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not…

— Gloria Anzaldua

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to…

— Gerry Beckley

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to…

— Ilan Stavans

“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Read a lot. Write a lot. Delete a lot.”

— Hannah Richell

I could never sit down and write jokes.

— Louis C. K

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

— Bob Dylan

“If rejections were cash, I'd be rich”

— Buffy Andrews

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

— Alberto Moravia

“A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.”

— Buffy Andrews

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

— Ernest Hemingway