Writing Quotes · Page 187

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer is someone who has written something today

— J. A. Jance

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

— Aaron Eckhart

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

— Voltaire

“To be a good writer, become a good listener.”

— Cynthia Briggs

I usually write about what makes me feel good.

— Poppy

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

— Rob Corddry

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

— Joan Armatrading

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.”

— Sarah Gerdes

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

— Rick Wakeman

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively…

— David Mamet

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing…

— Kyle Dunnigan

“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as…

— Christopher Hitchens

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins,…

— Ian Somerhalder

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise…

— William E. Gladstone

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things.…

— Alex Scally

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.…

— Miguel Syjuco

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was…

— Damian Lewis

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What…

— Deborah Moggach

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people…

— Mindy Kaling

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread.…

— Paulo Coelho

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking…

— Nhat Hanh

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an…

— William Zinsser

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a…

— John Irving

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political…

— Katie Kitamura

(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different…

— Taylor Swift

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

— Jade Bird

I write to discover what I know.

— Flannery O'Connor

I love to write. It's my first love.

— Geddy Lee

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

You learn to write by doing it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

— Sharon Van Etten

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

You can't write poetry on the computer.

— Quentin Tarantino