Writing Quotes · Page 185

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

— John Rhys-Davies

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

— Justine Musk

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

— Alan Furst

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

— Christine McVie

All writers are propagandists.

— Derrick Jensen

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

— Ben Affleck

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

— Nancy Mairs

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

— Joshua Schachter

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

— Colm Toibin

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

— Colin Mochrie

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

— Wallace Stegner

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others…

— Avril Lavigne

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for…

— Philip Glass

I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very…

— James Haskell

Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour.…

— Tony Gilroy

Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's…

— Miranda Devine

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall…

— Andrew Stanton

When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love…

— Jack Garratt

I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of…

— Sefi Atta

“I’d read through the whole thing twice, and I used to go on and on: Marcel, the spectacular writer, my idol, and…

— Rabih Alameddine

My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very…

— Michelle Zauner

“As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at…

— Robert Lopez

I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and…

— Johnny Rico

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

— Jules Verne

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

— Robert Hass

I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.

— Deborah Harkness

The web series format is great for writers.

— Arjun Mathur

How well I would write if I were not here!

— Italo Calvino

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

— Augusten Burroughs

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

— R. L. Stine