Writing Quotes · Page 17

Writing is a holy chore.

— Harlan Ellison

I do not write, I build.

— Alvar Aalto

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco

Writing bores me so.

— Oscar Wilde

“It is written.”

— Jasper Fforde

The writer is all alone.

— V. S. Naipaul

I love to read and write.

— Kunal Kapoor

I do write my own stuff.

— Sabrina Claudio

“Writing... is ... brave. You are brave.”

— Patricia MacLachlan

Goadome Nikes, the cortazone of the poem writer.

— Wale

Write to one person, not a million.

— Fairfax M. Cone

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

Anyone who can not write should.

— Harlan Ellison

A writer's work is to witness things.

— Edward Hoagland

Writing is a difficult thing.

— Scott Thompson

I've been writing full-time since I was 23,

— Emma Donoghue

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

— Pam Shriver

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

— Mark Gatiss

Boy instead of writing raps you should be writing a will.

— Lil Wayne

“I have my writers’ neuroses but not their talents.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

— Tom Odell

I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs'…

— Aesop Rock

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn…

— Jonah Lehrer

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I…

— LeCrae

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So…

— Don Novello

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

— James N. Frey

“I’m a writer; I can float for hours on a word like “amethyst” or “broom” or the way so many words sound…

— Katha Pollitt

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain…

— Michael Chabon

It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of…

— Charlize Theron

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring…

— Sara Zarr

I was originally an actor, and then I started to write. One of the most frustrating things about acting was that it…

— Sean Mathias

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that…

— Noah Cicero

“The repeated use of the word “crisis” in reference to morals is interesting, for it reveals a tendency on the part of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings…

— Sandra Scarr