Writing Quotes · Page 183

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

— Ruskin Bond

“Writing the thing is the journey.”

— Nigia Stephens

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

— Duff McKagan

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

— Henry Mancini

I'll never be a TV writer.

— Tom Segura

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

— Virginia Woolf

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

“Rituals help us change modes.”

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

— Vidyasagar

“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”

— Ranata Suzuki

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

— Amos Oz

“For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.”

— Al Stone

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing…

— Maurice Blanchot

I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but…

— John Maynard Keynes

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things…

— Robyn Davidson

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a…

— Helen Fielding

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk…

— Jonathan Dee

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else - especially someone you…

— Brad Meltzer

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,…

— Alexander Pope

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative…

— Leslie Jamison

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm…

— Taylor Swift

“I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever…

— D.A. Botta

Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less…

— Waldo Salt

Writing something down and processing it, sitting with a text and a story, editing and rewriting new drafts - that entire process…

— Haroon Moghul

I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or…

— Karin Tidbeck

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly…

— Haruki Murakami

“The poet writes the history of his own body.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't get it right, just get it written.

— James Thurber

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

— Alice Mattison

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

— Gustave Flaubert

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

— David Ogilvy

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

— Staness Jonekos