Writing Quotes · Page 198

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

— David Brin

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

“Moral writing is boring.”

— Johan van Wyk

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

— Josh Billings

I find writing to be a great stress-buster.

— Ravi Subramanian

All writing comes by the grace of God.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

— Philipp Meyer

I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better.

— Ti West

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

— Isaac Asimov

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose.…

— Tom Odell

“Writing things was important, wasn’t it?” Nakata asked. “Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product…

— Haruki Murakami

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume…

— Julie Berry

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what…

— Alexandra Fuller

I've always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That's…

— Natasha Rothwell

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and…

— Abi Morgan

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one…

— Jane Austen

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal…

— Toru Takemitsu

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try…

— William Landay

I've always had musicianship as a dream since I was really small. I started to take it a bit more seriously when…

— Marika Hackman

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as…

— Tracy K. Smith

I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged…

— Paul Lisicky

The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I…

— Donald Glover

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of…

— Kevin Barry

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild…

— Brené Brown

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

To write I have to wake up at 5 A.M.

— Rachel Sennott

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.”

— Peter Tieryas

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach