Writing Quotes · Page 186

I have been written off my whole career.

— Diego Sanchez

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Writers are archeologists of themselves.”

— Vicki Grove

Novel writing wrecks homes.

— C. S. Forester

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

— Mac Davis

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

— David Livingstone

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

— Darryl F. Zanuck

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

— Anonymous

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

— Megan Abbott

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

— Rory Bremner

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

— Rajkumar Hirani

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

— Jason Mraz

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

— Nick Tosches

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you…

— Neil Simon

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and…

— Willa Cather

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in…

— Errol Morris

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

— Michael Beschloss

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs…

— James Gray

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point,…

— Alanis Morissette

“She'll take my breath, she'll take my bones, but she cannot have my epitaph. For if indeed I truly am a writer,…

— Anne Schilde

The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had…

— Allen Ginsberg

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune…

— Heidi Julavits

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work,…

— Anonymous

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they…

— Ernest Hemingway

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even…

— Eileen Pollack

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter…

— Anthony Bourdain

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be…

— Keri Hilson

Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

— Hal Sparks

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

I always have to be writing.

— Taylor Swift

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

— Krysten Ritter

“State first, subject second, statesman last.”

— Amit Kalantri

Write what you care about.

— Sara Paretsky

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

— Erin Foster

“Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.”

— Stephen Fitzsimons