Writing Quotes · Page 188

Nothing was my thing for quite some time.

— Needa Muy

The world is full of paper, write to me

— Agha Shahid Ali

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

— Epictetus

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

— Nicole Brossard

A day without writing was a little death.

— Ray Bradbury

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

As a professor I can't teach writing.

— Peter Orner

I sit with the intention to write a record.

— Lisa Marie Presley

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

— Janette Turner Hospital

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.

— Eunhyuk

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

— Susan Fowler

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

— David Duchovny

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

— Michael Brandt

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

— Jenna Bush

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you…

— Craig Ferguson

“I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!”

— Ashly Lorenzana

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of…

— David Jeremiah

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

— Paula Fox

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I…

— Errol Morris

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone.…

— David Ogilvy

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

— Harry Styles

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our…

— Dan Smith

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There…

— William Faulkner

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds…

— Ehsan Sehgal

“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some…

— Laurie Foos

It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to…

— Remi Aubuchon

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite…

— Pete Townshend

I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so…

— Sarah Dessen

I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology…

— Lance Henriksen

“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

— Tiffany Madison

Write the book you'd want to read.

— Martha Stewart

How to do Math: 1. Write down question. 2. Cry.

— Anonymous

In a way, I was safe writing

— Franz Kafka

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

— Edna O'Brien

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

— Kent Haruf

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

— Dawn French

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle