Writing Quotes · Page 202

It was written without fear and without research.

— Dorothy Parker

I didn't know I'd ever write a Broadway musical.

— Sara Bareilles

“The thing I write will be the thing I write.”

— Steve Shilstone

I never write with particular actors in mind.

— William Monahan

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.

— Harry Redknapp

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”

— Amy Joy

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

— Earl Wilson

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

— Mattie Stepanek

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

— Les Parrott

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

— Stewart D. Friedman

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

“As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.”

— Edward Abbey

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

— Ryan Gosling

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It…

— Sylvia Plath

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on…

— Robert Musil

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

— Jason Mraz

Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy…

— Mark Leyner

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a…

— Warren Adler

“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.”

— Anonymous

“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring…

— Karen Hines

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,…

— S.U. Pacat

After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm…

— Steven Spielberg

“I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I…

— Brent Weeks

“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which…

— Roberto Bolaño

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come…

— Cornel West

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of…

— Ayobami Adebayo

“Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true…

— James Greer

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do…

— Kenneth Koch

To read and write is a paradise.

— Carlos Fuentes

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

— Michael Easton

If you can talk, you can write.

— Christopher Hitchens

Nature never writes a blind hand.

— Thomas Starr King

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

— Lisa Unger

“A writer's job is never finished.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

— Charles Lamb

“A good man is hard to write!”

— Tabi Wollstonecraft