Writing Quotes · Page 194

Jackie Chan is the best storyteller on this planet.

— Disha Patani

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

— Keith Urban

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

— Theodor Adorno

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

— Dolly Parton

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

One writes in order to feel.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“A good title never hurts a book.”

— Winna Efendi

This is history written in lightning.

— Woodrow Wilson

At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.

— Ritesh Agarwal

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

— Diablo Cody

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

— Peter Morgan

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

— Marchette Chute

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.

— Chris Pirillo

You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again…

— Jake Tapper

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to…

— Tom Brokaw

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to…

— Julien Green

“Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to…

— Alan Martin

Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show…

— Brian Van Holt

“Write - because you will explode if you don't, your brain will expand with words like a balloon filling with air…”

— Sarah Colliver

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and…

— Graham Nelson

It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to…

— Alice Munro

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's…

— Wayne Dyer

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are…

— Juan Goytisolo

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what…

— Tess Gerritsen

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You…

— Elmer Bernstein

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have,…

— Sarah Kay

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

— William Faulkner

Song writing is very serious; it is hard.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

— Mason Cooley

I'm constantly creating and writing.

— Orianthi

“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”

— Phyllis A. Whitney

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

— Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier